PA Relief Sale / Pennsylvania Relief Sale
Legal name: Pennsylvania Relief Sale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251634639
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Leola, PA, United States
- Phone
- (717) 208-4152
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $440,349
- Expenses
- $512,449
- Assets
- $43,889
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL CHARLES (CHAIR)
- KENNETH M MARTIN (VICE CHAIR)
- LOIS HUSTON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Money raised at the Pennsylvania Relief Sale supports Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) global efforts including peace building, food security, clean water initiatives, children’s education, disaster response, and refugee support. The following year, a meeting was held to more clearly define the sale and elect officers. The name Tri-County Relief Committee for MCC was born – referring to the counties of the founding organizers: Berks, Chester, and Lancaster. Five years later** , the sale was attracting 1,000 buyers coming not only from the local area but also New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. The proceeds from that sale were $5,600. The most spirited bidding came from the sale of handmade quilts. By the sixth year sale, buyers were coming from Virginia and Delaware. Sale organizers would often meet over dinner, and an idea came about to hold a fundraising dinner to help cover the...
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct a benefit auction and livestock sale to raise funds for relief efforts through mennonite central committe; all duties performed by volunteers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 97
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -16.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 6; 6th 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: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $495K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.