Penn-Mar Human Services
Legal name: Penn-mar Organization Inc (Md)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521207942
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Freeland, MD, US
- Phone
- 410-343-1069
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,037,223
- Expenses
- $28,593,248
- Assets
- $28,334,933
- Liabilities
- $4,102,817
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY T MILLER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GREGORY T MILLER (CEO): $448,991 total reported compensation
- JACQUELYN R STEVENS (COO): $282,312 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL J MAHON (IMMEDIATE PAST CFO): $272,293 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Penn-Mar Human Services is an organization driven by passion and guided by the belief that every person has the right to live a meaningful life. We support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live, work, and thrive in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Individual support services/ csla/ & low intensity support services - provided in home support to increase independent living skills for individuals with developmental disabilities. Also provided one time only assistance to individuals with developmental disabilities for items not otherwise covered in the individuals' benefits or government funded programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $449K · 21 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.