Easter Seals Central Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231445662
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- State College, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8146891911
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,948,029
- Expenses
- $4,715,804
- Assets
- $7,239,285
- Liabilities
- $1,174,189
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2011
The easter seals lance and ellen shaner child development center is a state recognized quality early care and education center and a participant in the keystone stars quality initiative program. Easter seals child development center currently holds a star iii designation. The purpose of the child development center is to provide an inclusive, comprehensive child development program, for infants, toddlers, preschool and pre-kindergarten children that ensures quality, innovative educational programs and customized support services, as necessary. Our staff provides developmentally appropriate curriculum experiences and activities, as well as therapeutic intervention, for those children in need of such services. Classrooms are staffed by early childhood educators and trained paraprofessionals.easter seals strives to provide a fully inclusive early care and education setting which means that all children, both typically developing and children with diverse needs, are welcome to grow and learn together within our program. The curriculum and programming that are offered meet the needs of all children and additional services, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy are available, as appropriate, to meet the specific needs of children with developmental delays. During fiscal year 11/12, the easter seals child development center provided care to over 90 children. The child development center also participates in the internship program with penn state university. This year 3 student interns were provided a comprehensive training series on topics such as curriculum, the iep process and department of public welfare regulations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 59th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 15th 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: -19.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2009 to 2011
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.