Pennsylvania State Mayors' Association
Legal name: Pennsylvania State Mayors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251230857
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bethel Park, PA, USA
- Phone
- 412.833.4100
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,646
- Expenses
- $48,444
- Assets
- $37,977
- Liabilities
- $2,438
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James F Nowalk (President)
- Donald Baumgarten (Vice President)
- Alexander Chelik (Vice President)
- Ron Harris (Vice President)
- Ralph Mowen (Vice President)
- Joe McGranaghan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kathryn Adamsky (Office Manager)
- James F Nowalk (President)
- Donald Baumgarten (Vice 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To secure closer official and personal relationships among all Mayors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; to secure unity of action in matters pertaining to Mayors and their duties; to exchange information among Mayors so that they can give better service to the municipalities that they represent; to work for closer cooperation with all other associations interested in local government; to preserve, promote and protect the rights of the office of Mayor; and to actively engage in promoting progressive legislation to support programs beneficial to all members.
What it reported doing in 2024
The PSMA annually organizes the only conference exclusively devoted to Mayors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The PSMA also provides legal opinions to Mayors on a regular basis. The PSMA is leading the other municipal and law enforcement associations in seeking legislative change allowing radar to be used by municipal police. On an ongoing basis the PSMA educates Pennsylvania Mayors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -120% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.