Pittsburgh Conservation Corps
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810878020
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4127276936
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,544,965
- Expenses
- $1,985,923
- Assets
- $2,028,410
- Liabilities
- $763,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARKESE LONG (PRESIDENT)
- ISAAC SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ILYSSA MANSPEIZER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ILYSSA MANSPEIZER (CEO): $135,730 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help restore and maintain land and green assets by providing professionally skilled crews who can assist in environmental management
What it reported doing in 2025
Working closely with a coalition of public and private agencies as wellas a network of greenspace and workforce development experts, landforce recruits, trains, educates, employs and supports people who have been systemically disadvantaged in and around pittsburgh, pa, including those who are formerly incarcerated, have mental health diagnoses, with substance abuse disorders, or are being excluded from family sustaining employment.in 2025 landforce crews, contributed 11,241 hours to regional environmental stewardship, completing 55 distinct projects in 22 municipalities/neighborhoods, maintaining more than 13 miles of trails, removing invasives from 12 acres of land, and planting 755 trees. Landforce provided more than 3,750 hours of training to participants. 100% of participants who successfully exited the program were working within a month of their departure, and 86% were still working 12 months later, with an average wage of $25.64.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.