Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251436685
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4123911348
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,399,755
- Expenses
- $3,508,816
- Assets
- $19,599,080
- Liabilities
- $8,863,698
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAIME DIRCKSEN (DIRECTOR; INTERIM PRES/CEO AT 4/25)
- ANNETTE FETCHKO (DIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THR 2/25)
Highest reported compensation
- JAIME DIRCKSEN (DIRECTOR; INTERIM PRES/CEO AT 4/25): $379,578 total reported compensation
- JEREMIAH DODRILL (DIR, TREASURER, CFO THROUGH 4/25): $315,004 total reported compensation
- ANNETTE FETCHKO (DIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THR 2/25): $199,828 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bethlehem haven of pittsburgh (bethlehem haven) provides shelter and supportive services to thousands of homeless women. Bethlehem haven's programs provide a continuum of care consisting of a range of housing and supportive services designed to enable each woman to identify her needs, develop a plan of action, and achieve a successful outcome. Housing programs offered: - emergency shelter provides temporary housing for homeless women. - safe at home offers monetary and basic assistance to women who are homeless, or at immediate risk of homelessness, for the first time in their lives. - haven homes provides supportive permanent housing for women who are mentally ill. - medical respite provides post acute recuperative care services in a safe environment for individuals who are medically stable, but are homeless, unstably or unsafely housed. Supportive services offered: - uptown legal clinic provides free legal counseling for civil cases in such areas as family law, landlord-tenant, public benefits, consumer protection, wills, power of attorney, and bankruptcy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.59; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $380K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $2.6M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 308 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.