Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236418845
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bellefonte, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8143552467
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,547
- Expenses
- $14,056
- Assets
- $66,406
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW FRANKENFIELD (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW FRANKENFIELD (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TERRI BREON (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Agricultural education orginizations
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual summer picnic: social and educational program including tour of research plots at penn state university. 54 people in attendance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.5%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 42%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.72; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.5% of revenue deployed · 42% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.