Partners for Quality Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300285255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mckees Rocks, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124460755
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $812,636
- Expenses
- $482,298
- Assets
- $10,705,581
- Liabilities
- $81,716
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET ROTHENBERGER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET ROTHENBERGER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $301,801 total reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN WILLITTS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $210,350 total reported compensation
- TAMI RIPPY (DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS): $84,473 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 for quality foundation, inc. Supports people by providing services that promote choice, personal satisfaction, and the realization of their hopes and dreams.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation will support and further the interest of the affiliated organizations that are qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the code (namely cci, aci, milestone, lifeways, and pfq, as described in schedule r by raising, investing, and distributing funds in ways which benefit, maintain, and improve such affiliated organizations. More specifically, the foundation will implement a variety of special events, campaigns, and programs to support its affiliates. These fundraising activities will be directed and coordinated by foundation staff and volunteers. The foundation intends to manage, invest, and reinvest the funds, and to make grants to its affiliated organizations in support of their charitable activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.7%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 17
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.2; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.7% of revenue deployed · 16.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $302K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 30/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.