Marcus Hook Plank Log Cabin Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201927612
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Marcus Hook, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6105877409
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,108
- Expenses
- $46,008
- Assets
- $82,653
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL MANERCHIA (President)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL MANERCHIA (President)
- ANNAMARIA GLISSON (SecTreasurer)
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
To care for and preserve the historic Plank House; to interpret the legendary connection with pirates on the Delaware River; to celebrate the historical significance of MH from the early 18th Century to present; offer tours & educational programs to celebrate and preserve the history.
What it reported doing in 2025
-Annual Pirate Festival held each September -Visiting Pirate Re-enactments with period encampment depicting colonial seaport life during the 18th Century.Skits and demonstrations of colonial skill sets required are exhibited throughout the festival. -Live music, games, crafters, food vendors, pony rides, face painting, fire engine rides from MHFD, and a beer garden.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.3%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 2
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th 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: -34.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 84.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.3% of revenue deployed · 1.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.