Pastoral Counseling of Northern Virginia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331011989
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7033356172
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $270,544
- Expenses
- $317,509
- Assets
- $3,025
- Liabilities
- $70,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY L HULME (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GARY L HULME (PRESIDENT/CEO): $83,066 total reported compensation
- MADELINE GROVE (TRUSTEE/TRUSTEE UNTIL SEP 25): $40,945 total reported compensation
- HEATHER HALL (TRUSTEE/TRUSTEE): $31,731 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pastoral counseling of northern Virginia exists to extend the reach of congregations as they seek to fulfill their historic mission of caring for the hearts and minds of persons. Pcnv seeks to provide the highest quality pastoral counseling services at an affordable cost to all persons regardless of race, religion, or national origin. We are informed by the wisdom of faith traditions as well as the insights of behavioral science in our understanding of and therapeutic approach to the healing of persons and their relationships. We not only see persons with profound faith commitments, but we also see persons who claim no faith orientation. We do not proselytize. We recognize the power of faith commitments in the shaping of self-understanding, of relationships with others, and of one's emotional health. We encourage our clients to make use of their faith commitments as a resource for their own healing and growth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Career/work issues: 9% of pcnv's time is spent providing training and instruction in these areas. Specifically, pcnv trains & instructs individuals in developing higher function level in work, home & community. Pcnv educates young people about other private & public vocational testing & resources that are available. In addition, the organization carries out a program of rehabilitation by instructing & training individuals whose earning capacities may have been impaired, as well as educating adults about employment opportunities, & assisting them in planning their careers & achieving occupational adjustment. To implement its purpose, the organization conducts occupational research, publishes the results of such research & sponsors group & individual vocational counseling. Its publications provide information to potential job seekers as to the opportunities open to them & how to take advantage of such opportunities. They also present broad pictures of various vocational areas, such as skilled trades, business & civil institutions, agencies of the federal government & the general public. The organization does not provide placement service. The organization also informs individuals of mental deficiency. Pcnv runs a speakers bureau & conducts workshops & seminars on these subjects. During the year pcnv saw approximately 62 clients for 208 hours in this area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 18th 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: -17.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 23.38; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $273K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.