Greater Pittbrgh Area Mad Dads

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
204716776
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Monroeville, PA, USA
Phone
4124576635
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$155,616
Expenses
$164,116
Assets
$47,789
Liabilities
$14,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GEORGE C SPENCER SR (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • AL MERRITT (CHAIR)
  • JAY GILMER (VICE CHAIR)
  • GEORGE C SPENCER SR (PRESIDENT)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Greater pittsburgh area mad dads is a chapter of a nationally affiliated faith-based christian organization that prepares men to restore safe communities. Our mission is to mobilize, train and guide men to impact the issues of drugs, gangs and violence in allegheny county. We develop and implement neighborhood street patrols and community-based programs designed to maintain safer neighborhoods and communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mad dads are at its simplest concerned, loving parents who purposefully hold themselves to be positive role models and who are single-minded in their resolve to save communities from the mouth of the madness that is drugs, crimes and violence. They acknowledge god as the true source of their courage, ability and success these parents work to instill and restore christian values. They work with local community members to set an example of positive role models and be a visible force in changing neighborhoods across america. They address drug dealers, criminals, unsupervised youth and anyone else who is destroying the moral fabric in hard-to-reach, low income communities. This work is accomplished through grass-roots recruitment of community members to form chapters (the heart and soul of the national organization), developing street patrols and relationships with members of the community in order to be a conduit to much needed services, while modeling morals, practices, behaviors and values that address the desperately lacking competencies of many of our communities. A key ingredient to the success of mad dads is that they become a visible and vocal presence in neighborhoods across the country, enlisting other community-based assets, as well as law enforcement, the judiciary and others who want to stand up and fight against the negative forces destroying our children, families and cities. Mad dads members are actively involved as surrogate parents conducting community service projects including: community service these initiatives prioritize youth development and community safety through street counseling and collaboration with law enforcement. Street patrol the mad dads street patrols aim to create a positive, visible presence of community fathers as role models to maintain safety and a healthy community environment. Moms division the moms division within greater pittsburgh area mad dads is dedicated to ensuring the well-being of children emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Surrogate dads mad dads aims to provide fatherless youth with genuine expressions of love and care, offering rare moments of sincere "i love you" messages.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 85.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 56.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $164K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.