Capital Area Late Start Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231740256
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175645682
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,886
- Expenses
- $82,634
- Assets
- $172,236
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIANA ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
- AMY MEHL (FORMER PRESIDENT)
- BRIANA ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIANA ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $31,385 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide social, intellectual, and wellness programs to dauphin county, Pennsylvania residents 55 years of age and older. The organization is dedicated to enhancing the members' quality of life and self esteem, promoting relevent & stimulating activities, encouraging social interaction & friendship, enriching members' lives by offering interesting & vital experiences, and providing a unique facility to satisfy the needs of all members.
What it reported doing in 2020
Senior citizen multiple service center
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 32
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 32.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.