Boy Scouts of America Susquehanna Council Inc #533
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240795397
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Williamsport, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5703265121
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $872,643
- Expenses
- $1,008,947
- Assets
- $3,062,938
- Liabilities
- $146,657
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY SNOOK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DONALD COHICK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAM STARTZEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT WEAVER (PAST PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE HASTINGS (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN GUTHRIE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DENNIS J DUGAN (SCOUT EXECUTIVE): $146,711 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of america, the scouting program of promoting the ability of young men and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft, and teaching them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by the boy scouts of america.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promotion of scouting programs and activities in the susquehanna valley region of Pennsylvania.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.4%; rating input score 97; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -15.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 76 of 78 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $926K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 41 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.