Harvard Community Services Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237098744
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2169918585
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,860,292
- Expenses
- $1,799,278
- Assets
- $902,761
- Liabilities
- $229,641
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elaine Gohlstin Elaine Gohlstin (CEO & President)
- Leonard Young (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Elaine Gohlstin Elaine Gohlstin (CEO & President): $107,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Harvards mission is to assist individuals & families at the neighborhood and countywide levels in becoming self-sufficient and contributing members of the Northeast Ohio Community. To facilitate and catalyze personal growth & development & to promote upward mobility.
What it reported doing in 2025
Family to Family - Assistance to Families and individuals for emergencies such as rental assistance to Avoid eviction, utility payment assistance, purchase of necessary household items such as stoves, refrigerators, furniture and similar item.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.