Main Street Closet
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 233100376
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Willow Street, PA, USA
- Phone
- (717) 464-2038
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Thrift Shops
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,179,100
- Expenses
- $1,103,701
- Assets
- $2,026,193
- Liabilities
- $132,951
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- MELVIN NEFF (CHAIRMAN)
- HAROLD HERSHEY (TREASURER)
- EDIE HESS (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Main Street Closet is an MCC thrift shop in Willow Street, Pennsylvania that sells donated items (e.g., clothing and household items) to the general public; proceeds support religious charitable organizations such as Mennonite Central Committee. Volunteers are the life blood of MCC thrift shops. There are many volunteer opportunities for all ages and we can work with your schedule. Find out what our volunteers and you can do. Mennonite Central Committee – a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches – shares God’s love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice. Proudly powered by WordPress.
What it reported doing in 2025
Donates profits to charitable organizations, primarily mennonite central committee, at the discretion of the board of directors. In 2025 402,471 was given to mcc and 40,500 was donated to several community 501 (c)3 organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.