Pennsylvania School Boards Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236003238
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175062450
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,514,274
- Expenses
- $9,715,646
- Assets
- $14,533,515
- Liabilities
- $2,602,665
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON MATHIS (PRESIDENT EFF. 1/1/25)
- ALLISON MATHIS (PRESIDENT ELECT THRU 12/31/24)
- MATT VANNOY (VICE PRESIDENT EFF. 1/1/25)
- MICHAEL GOSSERT (IMM. PAST PRESIDENT EFF. 1/1/25)
- MICHAEL GOSSERT (PRESIDENT THRU 12/31/24)
- SABRINA BACKER (PRESIDENT ELECT EFF.1/1/25)
Highest reported compensation
- NATHAN MAINS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $503,723 total reported compensation
- BRITTA BARRICKMAN (CHIEF MEM. SVCS. OFFICER): $246,928 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINA GRIFFITHS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $246,892 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote excellence in public education and school board governance through leadership, service, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Preparation and publication of policy guides and administrative regulation templates for Pennsylvania school boards on an annual subscription basis. Serving school districts, career and technical centers and intermediate units. Policy and administrative regulations services - 583 member entities agenda management services - 291 member entities. Board services include board self-assessment, administrative searches, compensation and staffing studies, background search services, job description services, performance evaluation services and career employment placement. These services reached 348-member entities during fiscal 2024-2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $504K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $313K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.