Battram Community Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882215820
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Middleburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5708371564
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,000
- Expenses
- $138,507
- Assets
- $55,589
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELWYN C PEACHEY (PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)
- STEVEN T WAGNER (VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELWYN C PEACHEY (PRESIDENT DIRECTOR): $221,492 total reported compensation
- VICKI L STEWART (SECRETARY): $171,980 total reported compensation
- STEVEN T WAGNER (VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR): $162,784 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote social welfare in the central susquehanna valley region and to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community. To work in collaboration with local school districts and career technical institutions to promote careers in wood products mfg.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants funded: birthright of sunbury, inc. $1,000.00 degenstein community library $1,500.00 expectations womens center $3,000.00 freeburg borough $5,000.00 fremont fire department $2,000.00 greater susq. Valley ymca $2,125.00 greater susq. Valley ymca - middlecreek $5,000.00 harvest house c.f. - food pantry $3,000.00 j & a herr memorial library $1,000.00 lewisburg childrens museum $1,000.00 middleburg community projects $10,000.00 middlecreek township $3,000.00 reliance hose company no.1 $5,139.00
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -177%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 29 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 22 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.