Highway Safety Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232912655
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pottsville, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5706282424
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Finance, Taxation, Monetary Policy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,332,609
- Expenses
- $3,331,822
- Assets
- $1,370,852
- Liabilities
- $836,316
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- TARA DESTEFANO (DEPUTY DIREC)
- ANN MARIE DILLMAN (CFO)
- DOUG LAUVER (BAORD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To reduce the frequency and severity of traffic related crashes, injuries, and deaths through education, aw engforcement and other appropriate means.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided vehicle operation safety awareness to schools, general publicm and other citizens of the commonwealth by promoting educational programs and safety compliance exercises. Governmental grant funding particularly provided for seat belt compliance, dui education and compiance and a vast array of public awareness programs to promote vehicle and highway safety.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% 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.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.