Partners Creating Community Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811874043
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Phoenixville, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842880528
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,377,488
- Expenses
- $6,154,098
- Assets
- $3,957,289
- Liabilities
- $3,272,292
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTEN WEBER (CO-EXEC. DIR./CHR): $119,897 total reported compensation
- MARK DOBERENZ (FARM PROGRAM LEAD): $68,912 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partners creating community ("pcc") is a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation supporting the needs of adults with autism, special mental health issues, developmental and intellectual challenges, by among other things, acquiring and developing an appropriate community space in which to conduct educational and vocational programs that provide opportunities for people with disabilities to become more active and engaged members of their communities. Pcc may also foster holisitic health and healing by developing creative programs, hosting social events and festivals, and collaborating with innovative, like-minded social, therapeutic and artisan enterprises to further support the vocational and education needs of people with disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Green lion breads is micro-bakery enterprise under the non-profit dedicated to sourcing local and regional whole grains, including heritage and ancient grains that are organically grown. Participants have gained more than 30 hours a week of experience activities including delivery, milling, sales, packaging, managing inventory, and baking prep. 260 bridge cafe, heart stone pastry, pear tree coffee roasters, and quiet space are enterprises under the non-profit that afford participants a creative and dynamic environment where they learn specialized skills in pastry baking and coffee roasting. Participants have gained more than 30 hours a week of experience activities. Creating a protected and rigorous working environment for a neurologically diverse staff to succeed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $92.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- 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 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.