Parkinson Partners of Northwestern Pennsylvania

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
251738740
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Erie, PA, USA
Phone
8147469559
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Support Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,786
Expenses
$87,512
Assets
$71,421

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Susan Peters (President)
  • Mary Kingson (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lynne Gotham (Executive Dir.)
  • Susan Peters (President)
  • Deborah Fleming (Treasurer)

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

Parkinson Partners of Northwestern PA is a nonprofit charity dedicated to helping those with Parkinson's disease and their families in the NW Pennsylvania region by providing education, support, programs and services. Parkinson Partners is the only nonprofit in the region solely dedicated to those with Parkinson's disease.

What it reported doing in 2025

Parkinson Partners teams up with Gannon University and the Salvation Army to provide a Parkinson's specific wellness program for those with PD. Participants are teamed up with students from the physical and occupational therapy programs. 1.5 hour classes are taught by current and retired Gannon OT and PT professors for 8 week sessions in the spring, summer and fall. Because many in our community do not have access to online formats, we also offer recorded exercise videos created by our wellness team. We send pedometers, exercise booklets and Parkinson's exercise class links to the community, encouraging them to stay moving. We have provided education about how individuals can start a walking program. We also worked with local neurology offices to provde these services to more PD patients in need. Over 750 people were reached.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 10
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.8%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 8

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 10.8% of revenue deployed · 8.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.