Par Ida Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237315182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172362374
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,155,951
- Expenses
- $2,012,225
- Assets
- $1,728,465
- Liabilities
- $593,178
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK DAVIS (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK DAVIS (PRESIDENT &): $450,693 total reported compensation
- LISA MATHIS (DIRECTOR OF): $209,910 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Par id/a foundation's mission is to strengthen the capacity of its members to provide person-centered services to pennsylvanians with intellectual disability and/or autism.
What it reported doing in 2024
Access to resources - par id/a foundation issues publications via mail to a direct mailing list of Pennsylvania service provider members who provide the majority of the services and supports in Pennsylvania for people living with autism or with an intellectual disability in Pennsylvania. Par id/a foundation mail is also sent to business associates that include a wide variety of organizations that have business relationships with par id/a foundation members, such as consultants, banks, insurance providers, legal and accounting firms. Providers and associates then disseminate par id/a foundation mail throughout their organizations to tens of thousands of pennsylvanians. The par id/a foundation website, www.par.net, provides free online access to information about how to receive services as well as links to relevant pa department of human services and office of developmental programs websites.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $451K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.