Crawford Heritage Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251813245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Meadville, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8143365206
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,819,123
- Expenses
- $1,645,728
- Assets
- $39,748,566
- Liabilities
- $3,599,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV BARRY CRESSMAN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVE GALEY (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- BOBBI JO DECRAPIO (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER MOHTASHEMI (THIRD VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTIAN M MAHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN M MAHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $99,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A community foundation established to provide a framework for charitable giving to local worthy causes in crawford county, Pennsylvania.
What it reported doing in 2024
The crawford heritage community foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in crawford county, Pennsylvania by connecting people and organizations to the charitable needs of our region. The foundation offers local service and knowledge, especially in regards to charitable impact of regional giving. It is organized to function in perpetuity and know and understand community needs now and in the future. It serves donors who have multiple charitable intent and those who wish to have an impact in more than one way. Money given to the foundation is used to provide grants to support the causes our donors care about as well as worthwhile programs we select. We manage more than 100 funds, which benefit more than 100 different organizations, scholarships and charitable purposes.raised approximately $3,140,000 of assets to enable future year funding of charitable endeavors. Was able to fund $1,135,440 of grants during the current year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.4%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 25th 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; 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 71.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 24.15; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.4% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 37 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.