Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232294612
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Media, PA, USA
Phone
2674198918
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$639,201
Expenses
$670,620
Assets
$768,860
Liabilities
$58,058

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIN SMIST (PRESIDENT)
  • JORDAN A CASEY ESQ (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • RACHEL WENTWORTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • RACHEL WENTWORTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $111,838 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance fair and equal access to housing opportunities for all pennsylvanians.

What it reported doing in 2025

The fair housing council of suburban philadelphia dba housing equality center of Pennsylvania's (hecp) offers services to ensure that consumers have equal access to housing and know their rights under fair housing laws and that housing professionals understand and comply with fair housing laws. Hecp provides counseling, testing investigations, and enforcement support for victims of housing discrimination; assistance negotiating reasonable accommodations and modifications for people with disabilities; and education and outreach regarding rights under fair housing laws. Hecp provides education and training programs for social service organizations, agencies that serve the protected classes, public officials, municipalities, and private and nonprofit housing providers to promote compliance with fair housing laws and to prevent discrimination, and print materials and other resources to educate the public and housing professionals about fair housing. Hecp also conducts testing investigations of housing discrimination in rental, sales, accessibility, homeowners insurance, and mortgage lending transactions, both in response to individual complaint allegations and systemic investigations. During 2025, hecp directly served 2,734 individuals, including 252 victims of housing discrimination, 89 technical assistance requests, and 455 landlord/tenant counseling intakes and information and/or referral requests, and 1,938 individuals trained at 68 education and outreach events. During 2025, 25,793 educational guides, fact sheets, or posters were distributed to consumers or agencies by hecp. In 2025, hecp conducted 116 fair housing testing investigations and referred 54 complaints to enforcement agencies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $88.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -4.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $539K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.