Easterseals
Legal name: Easter Seals Delaware & Maryland's Eastern Shore Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510066728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Castle, DE, USA
- Phone
- 312-551-7137
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,229,468
- Expenses
- $31,571,449
- Assets
- $64,735,710
- Liabilities
- $5,205,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN SKLENAR (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KEN SKLENAR (PRESIDENT/CEO): $277,953 total reported compensation
- PAM REUTHER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $240,393 total reported compensation
- MAGGIE COLLEEN WEBB (CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER): $237,890 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Easterseals provides essential services and support for individuals with disabilities and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outpatient rehabilitation therapy programs utilize physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists who develop individualized treatment programs for persons with a variety of orthopedic and neurological diagnoses, including spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's disease, musculoskeletal disorders and autism. The early intervention program serves children from birth to 3 years of age diagnosed with developmental delays or medical conditions. Individuals receive treatment from a team of professionals, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and early childhood educators. Applied behavioral analysis focuses on improving specific behaviors, funcitonal communication, social skills, independent living skills, and adaptive learning skills. The program uses board certified behavior analysts and registered behavior technicians to provide assessment, treatment planning, parent education, and intervention to children with a medical diagnosis of autism as a compliment to the early intervention program. These services are typically provided in the child's home or daycare, but may also be offered at easter seals facilities located in each county. 1,739 people were served through this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $27.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $278K · 39 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.