Pennsylvania Council on Independent Living
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251543250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Lemoyne, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2156342000
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $282,792
- Expenses
- $311,376
- Assets
- $61,364
- Liabilities
- $3,629
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL GRIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MISTY DION (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- AMY BECK (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL GRIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $66,871 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise public awareness about Pennsylvania centers for independent living, to provide individualized technical assistance to members, to advocate for programs and services that will improve the lives of people with disabilities, and to provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raised public awareness about PA Centers for Independent Living, and advocated for people with disabilities by providing opportunities for this community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for affiliated organizations.
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
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: 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: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.3% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $269K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.