Green Valleys Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237025192
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pottstown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104694900
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $739,481
- Expenses
- $549,833
- Assets
- $6,920,430
- Liabilities
- $40,693
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER ORZECHOWSKI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- VICTORIA LAUBACH (EXECUTIVE DI): $99,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To protect, preserve, and restore the natural waterways of northern chester county. We inspire, educate, and involve our community to make a difference for our generation and for generations to come.
What it reported doing in 2024
Welkinweir - the association's headquarters and former home of the association's founding members, who donated the property. The estate house and 162 permanently protected acres are listed on the natural register of historic places; an adjacent 62 acres are under permanent protection. The property features an arboretum of rare or unusual trees and shrubs and formal gardens set within ecologically diverse forests, meadows, wetlands, ponds, and stream habitats as well as an ever-growing collection of projects that demonstrate sustainable practices and nature-cased infrastructure. We provide training through summer internships for students in the fields of horticulture, forestry, ecological restoration, who go on to work at public and private gardens. Welkinweir is where many of (continued on schedule o) the association's educational programs take place. A very limited number of special event rentals (primarily weddings, but also memorial services, business meetings, and civic functions) are allowed in the arboretum and at the estate house during the spring and fall. Funds generated are used to support the continued preservation and restoration of the historic property.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 20%; rating input score 20; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.59; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 50 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $483K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 20/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.