Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251126094
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125662570
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,486,616
- Expenses
- $9,974,480
- Assets
- $29,309,247
- Liabilities
- $3,396,010
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICA BURKART (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICA BURKART (CEO): $303,854 total reported compensation
- BERNEDETTE SCHEID (VP OF FINANCE): $147,605 total reported compensation
- CAROLINE YOPP (COO): $132,003 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As the preeminent leadership experience for girls in grades k-12, girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing positive mentors, skill-building programs, and resources to meet the needs of girls in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. Girl scouts western Pennsylvania serves nearly 14,000 girls through a variety of membership pathways, including troop, individual, camp, and travel. Program activities include career exploration, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership development, personal health and wellness, community service, outdoor adventure, and more. These activities are implemented in various settings, including camps, libraries, schools, congregations, and other community buildings.
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 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.94; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $304K · 30 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $531K 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: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.