Developmental & Disability Services of Lebanon Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231645462
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lebanon, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172743493
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $879,280
- Expenses
- $890,227
- Assets
- $1,258,493
- Liabilities
- $156,433
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN WHITMOYER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- COLLEEN CHRISTIAN (EXECUTIVE DI): $106,552 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of development and disability services of lebanon valley is to empower children with developmental delays and persons with disabilities to lead more productive, satisfying, and independent lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Child services special instruction - provides infants and toddler assistance in developing cognitive, physical and social-emotional skills necessary for the child to communicate their needs and wants and to interact with their family and peers. Physical therapy - instructs the family on how to carry, position, and play with their child and educates the family in gross motor development and expectations for each developmental stage. Speech therapy- provides speech and language therapy for children under the age of three. Occupational therapy- assists children to learn to use their hands for specific tasks, such as dressing, playing with a toy, or and eating recreational programs. - provides specialized recreational opportunities including bowling, soccer, and an autism social skills class. Summer stars day camp - provides summer day camp experiences for children ages 4-17.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $768K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.