Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232218001
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2155767044
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,098,919
Expenses
$1,277,865
Assets
$960,166
Liabilities
$212,303

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCHNEARIA ASHLEY (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • JORDAN CASEY (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
  • PHYLLIS CHAMBERLAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • PHYLLIS CHAMBERLAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $156,866 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 housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. Hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government officials (see schedule o)working from a shared belief that everyone deserves a home within their reach. We work by providing research, coalition-building, leadership and outreach to create programs that either increase the supply or reduce barriers to the production, rehabilitation, preservation or provision of safe, decent homes for low-income people.

What it reported doing in 2024

Hap educates the public about solutions to the challenges of housing affordability, homelessness, and blight by coordinating peer to peer learning, regular webinars and conferences and elevating new resources and highlighting promising practices. Hap conducts research and provides trainings and technical assistance to assist those delivering assistance programs at the local level. Technical assistance is provided by sharing information and expertise with communities, assisting with capacity building and staff training and assessingfeasibility of new programs. Hap is an expert on practical solutions to the affordable housing crisis and has led an effort to create a state policy infrastructure that assists local communities to provide affordable housing to its lowest income residents. (see schedule o)hap advocacy and lobbying promotes policies, legislation and programs that support hap's mission including updating membership on legislative happenings, meeting with legislators to advance critical legislation, providing opportunities for advocacy and lobbying at the state and federal levels. Hap identifies and researches best practices and serves as a go-to resource for communities to adopt evidence-based and data-informed practices and program models. Hap supports local pracitioners by convening to advance programs and lending capacity and credibility to promote programs and policy solutions.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.6%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 63rd 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: -16.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.6% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.