Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874829271
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Johnstown, PA, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $674,553
- Expenses
- $579,473
- Assets
- $545,470
- Liabilities
- $42,622
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANGIE BERZONSKI (EXECUTIVE DI): $120,032 total reported compensation
- BARB CHARNEY (ACCOUNTING D): $86,302 total reported compensation
- ZINNA SCOTT (INTERIM EXEC): $85,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the pittsburgh food policy council is to build a food system that benefits our communities, economy, and environment in ways that are just, equitable and sustainable. Driven by community-led solutions, we bring together over 80 entities and 120 individuals to re-imagine our regions food system and seek policies that promote local food growing, sustainable agriculture, equitable development, and access to healthy food, particularly in low-income communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
To build a food system that benefits our communities, economy, and environment in ways that are just, equitable and sustainable.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $405K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.