Community Action Agency of Delaware County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232142644
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Boothwyn, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108334442
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,490,995
- Expenses
- $17,843,899
- Assets
- $18,909,558
- Liabilities
- $6,352,524
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD T COLEMAN (CEO)
- JOHN P DIENNA JR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD T COLEMAN (CEO): $207,852 total reported compensation
- SHARON GRASTY (CHIEF PROGRA): $167,721 total reported compensation
- GINA ONDO (CONTROLLER): $143,757 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 assist economically disadvantaged residents of Delaware county, pa in achieving self-sufficiency by providing a wide range of services including economic development, housing, emergency services, food distribution, employment and training, counseling, information and referral, and administrative services.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides private construction services to individuals and businesses which allows the organization to employ its maintenance and construction workers full time rather than on a part time or temporary basis, and to provide job training to those employees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $199.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $16M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $208K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.