Serverie

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820819172
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Mckean, PA, USA
Phone
8147904973
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$114,055
Expenses
$95,615
Assets
$146,397
Liabilities
$40,200

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • AARON LUNDBERG (VICE CHAIRMAN): $177,561 total reported compensation
  • DEREK SANFORD (CHARIMAN): $46,599 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our desire is to connect willing volunteers with specific neighborhoods and organizations who are poised to serve those in need in our city. We mobilize and equip volunteers to meet pressing needs in our community.

What it reported doing in 2024

At its heart, serverie is a volunteer mobilization organization serving erie, Pennsylvania. Our goal is simple: connect willing volunteers with existing, trusted agencies in our community. There are tons of agencies doing amazing volunteer work in our area, but they need able and willing volunteers to help them achieve their mission. Serverie saturday is an event in which we provide volunteers to agencies and orginzations to participate in their projects. Some of those projects included care packages, emergency shelter, masks, onp winter homeless shelter. Some past projects included helping a mom move homes, delivering 500 care packages, set up of an emergency shelter and emergency quarantine shelter, donations for climate changers and erie city moms, scaffolding for projects, and tools for halloween community party. Serverie also hosts a tool bank, offering free tools available for use by agencies or community members hosting a community service project. The tool bank includes a wide variety of tools ranging from landscaping instruments to saws, and including one box truck and two trailers. Our serverie summer project operates like serverie saturday but on a grander scale, running across three days. Some past events include a neighborhood renewal of the area from 6th street to 12th street and from holland street to wayne street, home repairs, community engagement, community revitalization, and park development.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 79%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 2 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.