Bell Socialization Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231896438
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178485767
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,219,044
- Expenses
- $15,359,387
- Assets
- $9,605,981
- Liabilities
- $1,489,026
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZAK WOLPERT (PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT THOMASSY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANTHONY SCHWEITZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ANTHONY SCHWEITZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $143,334 total reported compensation
- ANITA SUMNER (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $99,936 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of bell socialization services is to provide an environment of support and empowerment where people can improve their quality of living. The agency offers housing and basic living support through mental health, intellectual disability, and shelter service departments toward its vision of a community where people are valued and respected, and live with dignity.
What it reported doing in 2024
C.h.i.p.p. (community hospitalization integration project program) - residential services is a partnership between four agencies: the york/adams mental health-intellectual and development disabilities program, wellspan behavioral health services, adams/hanover counseling services, and bell socialization services. This program provides residential services in an apartment complex for seriously mentally ill consumers who were previously long-term patients (2 + years) at pa's state hospital institutions. This program also provides temporary support (30-90 days) for one mentally ill consumer at a time who is recovering from a local psychiatric hospitalization. During the current fiscal year, this program served approximately 24 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 21 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $190K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.