Goals and Assists Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813379802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2159524196
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,457,275
- Expenses
- $105,814
- Assets
- $8,062,702
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT THARP (PRESIDENT)
- SANFORD LIPSTEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT THARP (PRESIDENT): $397,137 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was established to assist dedicated, under-privileged, and economically challenged students of ed snider youth hockey & education programs to expand and achieve their goals for higher education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The goals + assists program aims to help snider high school students who are interested in pursuing various postsecondary pathways, such as attending college, university, or trade school, enlisting in the military, or going into the workforce get the guidance they need to set them up for success and achieve their goals.(continued on schedule o.)participants of the goals + assists program are eligible to apply for the goals + assists scholarship in their senior year of high school. In partnership with ten regional universities and trade schools, the goals + assists scholarship awards recipients with a full or partial scholarship to cover tuition, room and board, and required fees. Students will also benefit from leadership and career development opportunities and constant support from the snider postsecondary team to ensure they remain on track for graduation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 95.7%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 76.2; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -34.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $397K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.