Johnson College
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240795439
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Scranton, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5703426404
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,543,781
- Expenses
- $14,906,646
- Assets
- $41,779,439
- Liabilities
- $9,467,915
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHRYN PITTELLI (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- WILLIAM BURKE (VICE PRESIDENT STUDENT & A)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHRYN PITTELLI (PRESIDENT & CEO): $272,713 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM BURKE (VICE PRESIDENT STUDENT & A): $144,217 total reported compensation
- BARB BYRNE (VP OF FACULTY & COLLEGE PLANNING): $127,478 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Johnson college provides real-world, hands-on learning in a caring environment and prepares graduates to enter into or advance in their careers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Today approximately 700 students pursue degrees in 17 associate degree and 5 academic certificate programs in electronic and industrial, building trades and technology, transportation and health and animal sciences. The college's thirteen buildings include a library, gymnasium, physical fitness center, classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. The college has partnered with industry and currently has 10 lab locations throughout lackawanna and luzerne counties where labs are taught on the site of the industry partner. The college's campus encompasses 44 acres of land in scranton, Pennsylvania. The college has a satellite campus at the can do training center in hazle township, Pennsylvania.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 24 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.4M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.