Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264160755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Havertown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2157602782
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $248,341
- Expenses
- $8,296
- Assets
- $250,890
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN HAYES (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JAMES W CONROY PHD (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAITLIN ANGELONE (DIRECTOR)
- JESSICA GALLAGHER (CO-SR VICE P)
- KAREN HAYES (CO-PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, literary, scientific, religious and educational purposes, including: to commemorate, honor, and interpret the histories of persons with disabilities who lived at pennhurst state school and hospital (pennhurst). To promote an understanding of the struggle for dignity and full civil rights for persons with disabilities, using the little-known history at pennhurst. To educate citizens in local, national and international communities about the historical significance of pennhurst. To advocate for the preservation and adaptive re-use of the former pennhurst state school and hospital. To be part of a an effort to create a world-class national museum to honor and memorialize the ongoing civil and human rights struggle of americans with disabilities in a location of national significance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purpose of the clir grant is to digitalize paper documents about the history of the now-closed pennhurst state school and hospital in chester county pa, and the 40-year history of the self-advocacy organization speaking for ourselves. Once digitalized, these historical records will be made available to researchers, historians, and others worldwide studying these efforts, by creating a website including all these digitalized documents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 93
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.4%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 96.7%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 30.24; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.4% of revenue deployed · 58.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 15 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.