Fishtown Neighbors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 233070557
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,597
- Expenses
- $128,389
- Assets
- $83,174
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashlei Tracy (President)
- Jennifer Gow (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ashlei Tracy (President)
- Jennifer Gow (Vice President)
- Michael Van Dorn (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Service community of Fishtown residents through various neighborhood events community resources and community service activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community outreach and neighborhood services including a scholarship program for neighborhood high school students neighborhood beautification projects food donation programs hosting local zoning meetings and community communications.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.