Medards House

What it reported doing in 2025

Medard's house acts as a second home for middle and high school youth after school and is the only free year-round program in our school district focusing on middle and high school students. Medard's house has purposefully chosen to combat the most pressing issues facing teenagers today, including obesity, drug and alcohol use, mental health, and homelessness. Medard's house offers a free, supportive teen-driven space with a hot meal served family style; multiple opportunities for sports and arts; homework help; a teen-tended garden; a large family room with couches, tvs, and video games; large open green space; and on-site mentoring. The purpose is to support teens and their families, reduce negative and self-defeating behaviors, equalize risk factors, and guide youth toward a fulfilled adulthood. Currently, the after-school program hosts about 40 youth four times per week. Over the last few months, medard's house has also used their facility as a shelter to address the pressing issue of homelessness in cumberland county. Medard's house also turns its attention to addressing a rising number of local youth and adolescents who are experiencing homelessness. Data shows there are over 80 youth and adolescents in the county known to be experiencing homelessness, a growing number of whom are concentrating in an area within a mile of medard's house. In addition, over 90% of the youth and adolescents medard's house serves reside in homes considered low- to moderate-income who may be at increased risk of homelessness. All medard's house programs are open to any and all middle and high schoolers, primarily serving cedar cliff high school and new cumberland middle school in cumberland county and regularly serving students coming from harrisburg and lemoyne. Cedar cliff high school reports 32% of their students are considered economically disadvantaged, while new cumberland reports 39% as economically disadvantaged. Almost 11% of the high school's students identify as hispanic, as do 10% of the middle school students. Both schools report about 6% of students identify as black or african americans. Demographics show that the youth who choose to attend medard's house are those who are most vulnerable, making services even more vital: 25% of youth served identify as black or african-american; 35% identify as hispanic or latinx; and 50% are supported in their schools with an individualized education program and/or live with a diagnosed mental health disorder or developmental delay. The medard's house approach addresses three key areas of youth development: character development: through mentoring, inspirational guest speakers, and spiritual instruction, we seek to build character to motivate our students toward excellence. Academic assistance: we offer homework help to all students as requested and partner with the local district to provide several extended educational opportunities, including the emerging garden-to-table program. Physical fitness: medard's house features several fun fitness activities on-site, including an indoor climbing wall and a skate park. We also partner with other nonprofits and community organizations to encourage fitness opportunities. We provide opportunities for intramural sports, summer camps, field trips, kayaking, tubing, swimming, hiking, and more.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
• Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • 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: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings