Parent Encouragement Program

Legal name: Parent Encouragement Program Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521379642
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Kensington, MD, US
Phone
301-929-8824
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,676,916
Expenses
$1,922,897
Assets
$1,390,833
Liabilities
$93,009

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHLEEN HEDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • PASCALE BRADY (VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY)
  • KELLY VAN ORDEN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KATHLEEN HEDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,989 total reported compensation
  • PASCALE BRADY (VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY): $7,240 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower parents with the skills and confidence to raise responsible, resilient, and respectful children.

What it reported doing in 2024

The pep family resiliency program (pep-frp) is a free, eight-week, culturally responsive, support-group style program designed to help parents and caregivers strengthen their children's confidence, skills, and resilience. In fy25, the pep-frp was fully funded through grants from the Maryland dept of human services, md community health resources commission, and private donors. Offered in english, spanish, and amharic, pep-frp creates a safe and supportive space where participants learn practical parenting tools and approaches through pep-produced educational videos, followed by guided discussions led by trained pep facilitators from the communities served. Group discussions center on participants' lived experiences and perspectives, fostering shared learning and mutual support. In fy25, nearly 1,300 parents and caregivers (representing more than 2,250 children) completed the pep-frp from 4 Maryland counties: montgomery county, howard county, frederick county and dorchester county. Pep delivers the program in partnership with the public schools systems in the respective counties, with a priority on offering the program in schools located in communities with high levels of poverty. Based on evaluations developed and implemented by pep's research partner norc at the university of chicago, the pep-frp shows evidence of having a large positive impact along 8 subscales: stronger parent-child relationship; stronger parent-child communication; improved cooperation of child; improved parental knowledge of how to support child with school work; improved parent self-sufficiency; improved parental self-efficacy; increased positive and decreased negative parenting behaviors by primary caregiver; and, improved parental adjustment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.4%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 57.4% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.