Mission Scranton
Legal name: Mission Scranton Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821959810
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Chinchilla, PA, USA
- Phone
- (570) 241-8381
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,582
- Expenses
- $148,549
- Assets
- $1,060
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- NATHAN R MILLER (Executive Dir.)
- DAVID E DRAPER (Treasurer)
- MICHAEL D STALLARD (Chairman)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission! To empower at-risk youth and families of inner-city Scranton through life changing relationships, lasting hope, and opportunities for a brighter future. Staff and volunteers from across Lackawanna County participate in running safe and engaging programs in the low-income, section 8 housing communities of Valley View Terrace and Hilltop Manor Apartments. In 2019, Nate was named the Executive Director of Mission Scranton in a part-time role. In 2021, he said, “he took a leap of faith” by leaving the stability of his full-time employment to focus on fundraising and establishing Mission Scranton as a sustainable organization that will make a long-term impact. During Nate’s time as a volunteer and staff member, he has led the organization to grow from one program a week in Valley View Terrace to multiple programs a week, providing event and camp opportunities, and reaching a...
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided meals, after school programs, homework help, mentoring and skill development to dozens of low income children and their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 34.9%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -46.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 34.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.