Family Service and Children's Aid Society of Venango County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251239928
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oil City, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8146774005
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,091,545
- Expenses
- $3,785,555
- Assets
- $9,214,939
- Liabilities
- $745,273
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID HEINZER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- DENISE JONES (PRESIDENT)
- RODNEY BECK (CEO)
- MARY K SEFARIN (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RODNEY BECK (CEO): $98,261 total reported compensation
- MARY K SEFARIN (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $32,903 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Committed to providing counseling and education in family living; providing training and educational opportunities to students in the field of social service; strengthening and preserving the quality of family life for its consumers and community through support, education and empowerment; encouraging its consumer, through a variety of services, to strive for positive changes and adjustment to life situations; providing services to victims of sexual and domestic violence, and other crimes; to work toward providing a safer community, and otherwise to manifest an interest and concern for social and economic problems including the general welfare of the family.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ppc violence free network: provides assistance to victims, men, women, and children of domestic and sexual violence and other violent crimes. Services include advocacy, supportive counseling, support groups, legal and medical accompaniment, community education and school prevention programs, 24-hour hotline, protection from abuse (pfa's), relocation, and the only emergency shelter in venango county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.