Brockway Old Fashioned 4Th of July Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251711842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brockway, PA, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,506
- Expenses
- $97,885
- Assets
- $53,231
- Liabilities
- $22,835
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JEFFREY GANKOSKY (Chairman)
- CYNTHIA SMITHTRO (Secretary)
- LISA M ZOCCO (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Brockway Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration is to provide our community, surrounding area and Western Pennsylvania with an old-fashioned Independence Day celebration.
What it reported doing in 2025
All activities associated with the Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration are free to the public and consist of games, patriotic programs, and various entertainment and cultural events that lend themselves to all ages. The celebration is capped off with a parade, followed by a gigantic fireworks display considered to be the best around.All events are donated, sponsored or paid for by community and area organizations, businesses and individuals. Additional revenues necessary to provide a celebration of this magnitude are obtained through fund raisers throughout the year, and a collection taken along the parade route during the time of the parade.Non-profit organizations, upon the approval of the Executive Committee, are permitted to sell refreshments in the Park during the celebration. These non-profit organizations traditionally include Scouts, civic groups, churches, athletic booster clubs, ambulance services and police organizations. Sidewalk sales are not permitted in the Park and are carried out outside of the auspices of the Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration.We believe that the events provided create community pride, cooperation and participation. This celebration provides a clean, non-carnival atmosphere and several cultural events not always available or affordable to residents of a small, rural community like Brockway.The Brockway Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration is a time of family and friend togetherness that is attended by thousands of people from all over. Family and friends schedule their vacations for the celebration in order to come home or visit our community.The time and efforts of our all-volunteer committees are immeasurable. Monthly meetings, beginning two weeks after the celebration, are supplemented throughout the year by additional time and efforts of sub-committee members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.