Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251407396
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sharon, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7249815882
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,668,592
- Expenses
- $15,890,162
- Assets
- $153,005,126
- Liabilities
- $8,099,027
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL STRIMBU (PRESIDENT)
- KAREN WINNER-SED (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KYLE ENGLISH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KYLE ENGLISH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $167,102 total reported compensation
- DENNIS J LIEB (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $135,844 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our community foundation is a public, non-profit charitable organization designed to attract and invest permanent endowment resources, with the purpose of enhancing the quality of life for the residents of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, in accordance with the charitable intentions of its donors who wish to leave a legacy. To fulfill this mission, our community foundation will: (1) identify and support community-based charitable purposes in the areas of health, education, economic development, human services, historical, cultural and environmental activities (2) help to shape responses to community needs through philanthropic leadership, commitment, and compassion and (3) demonstrate accountability and integrity in the management of resources.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarship program--the foundation administers more than 100 different scholarship funds, which are primarily awarded to graduating high school seniors. These scholarships are for students attending institutions of higher learning, including loan forgiveness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as 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. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.5%; rating input score 95; 24th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 42.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.63; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 360 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 346 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.