Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251180898
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Uniontown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7244376050
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,835,495
- Expenses
- $12,340,992
- Assets
- $14,774,390
- Liabilities
- $3,740,140
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- NIKKI DANTZLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- NIKKI DANTZLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DONNA STRAIGHT (TREASURER)
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
To provide programs that will enable low income individuals to attain the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation needed to become self-sufficient.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education- provide quality adult education programs including skills assessment, onsite testing, remedial classes, tutoring, employment training, and study skills.counseling in prison and employment readiness instruction.aging- provide congregate and homebound meals, education classes, computer training, health education, screening, tax counseling and in home services of personal care and other support activites.property development- provide affordable housing to "in need" individuals and provide incubated office space to promote economic growth.support services- provides information and referrals to other agencies in the county to streamline client access, intake and case management for efficiency and client convenience.other- recognized for innovative and strong fundraising and development practices. Volunteers are used extensively in many programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $204.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $280K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.