Patches Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251827759
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- New Castle, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7246570226
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Financial Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $805,825
- Expenses
- $707,958
- Assets
- $576,410
- Liabilities
- $50,817
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Holly Vete (Executive Director)
- Anthony Frank (President)
- Jeffrey Wolfe (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Holly Vete (Executive Director): $58,341 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to advocate for a recovery and consumer focused system of care in Lawrence County that utilizes best practices and evidence based practices that are effective and efficient as supported by the data from measuring outcomes, quality and accountability
What it reported doing in 2024
Lawrence County Client Satisfaction Team focus is to provide a strictly confidential way to report consumers concerns and increase the level of satisfaction involving the hehavioral health services they receive. This is accoumplished by visiting providers sites and telephone surveys. The LC Client Stisfaction team regularly visit providers of mental health and or substance abuse services. We ask that the consurmer complete an anoymous survey regarding the services they receive. The information gathered is reported to the behavioral health providers, the Mental Health/Developmental Services office, and the managed care company, to ensure that quality services are available to consumers in Lawrence County. In fiscal year 2024-2025 , 143 site visits were made to area providers to survey people face to face. A total of 3737 surveys were completed in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $284.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $621K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.