Drug & Alcohol Service Providers of PA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222762180
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Myerstown, PA, USA
Phone
6104130026
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$182,885
Expenses
$134,873
Assets
$53,764
Liabilities
$10,122

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Mike Harle (Treasurer)
  • Erich Curnow (Vice Chair)
  • Robert Dellavella (Chairman)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

DASPOP was founded to educate the public on alcohol and drug abuse prevention and addiction treatment and to advocate for effective drug and alcohol prevention, education and treatment health system in Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1986, DASPOP members and supporters have had a significant impact on the provision of addiction treatment in both

What it reported doing in 2024

1. Secured introduction and passage of a law requiring all group health insurance plans provide treatment for alcoholism. 2. Secured introduction and passage of a law requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for non-hospital detoxification, rehabilitation and halfway houses in the continuum of covered addiction treatment services. 3. Developed and implemented a statewide and national strategy to safeguard key provisions of Act 106 of 1989 and Act 152 of 1988. 4. Secured ammendments to assorted DUI laws to ensure assessment and referral to addiction treatment as part of sentencing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $167K reported
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.