Schenley Heights Community Development Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251769982
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $693,005
- Expenses
- $679,118
- Assets
- $846,389
- Liabilities
- $188,272
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALICIA GEORGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DEWITT WALTON (BOARD MEMBER)
- GAVIN WALTON (VICE CHAIR TREASURER)
- ALICIA GEORGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Programs for youth children 3-18 during after school and summer hours for the schenley heights and pittsburgh community.
What it reported doing in 2023
The after-school tutorial and enrichmnet program a step. A step was established to provide quality expereinces during the non school hours for school aged childern, kindergarden through eight grade. The inexpensive services provide a range of activities including educational and social enrichment monday through friday 2:00pm until 6:00pm. Staff members include certified teachers, retired teachers, adult tutors, college student, and high school tutors. Transportation to and from the site is provided with snack upon arrival. A step has a working relationship with the schools in the hill district and is dedicated to providing families with meaningful, affordable childcare in effort to keep children from participating in destructive behaviors that can temp them when supervision is missing or minimal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 40
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 16.7%; rating input score 17; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 73.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $499K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.