Center in the Park
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231919016
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2158487722
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,935,285
- Expenses
- $1,847,623
- Assets
- $1,284,975
- Liabilities
- $163,507
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREMIAH LASTER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RENEE CUNNINGHAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $104,905 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Center in the park promotes positive aging and fosters community connections for older adults whose voices are critical instruments in shaping its activities and direction.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other program services includes the following: phila. Long-term care ombudsman program (pltcop): through a contract with philadelphia corporation for aging (pca) cip provides ombudsman services and advocacy for residents of long-term care facilities in northwest and northeast philadelphia. Ombudsmen receive and mediate complaints from residents and their families, addressing issues of residents' rights, resident care, resident dignity, finances, and overall quality of care. They conduct facility visits, attend resident council meetings, as well as exit meetings with the department of health. Health and evidence based-programs: with a decades-long history of collaborative academic partnerships cip has established itself as a living laboratory for community-based research. This research has larger implications for senior centers locally and nationally, though development of evidence-based programs that may be replicated and/or adapted to meet the culturally diverse needs of older adults.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 4.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.