ShareCare Faith in Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232635994
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108672177
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $270,704
- Expenses
- $272,536
- Assets
- $341,465
- Liabilities
- $11,487
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Phyllis Kulp (President)
- Karen Davison (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lynn Marie Heiney (Executive Dir.): $66,594 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ShareCare Faith in Action provides free volunteer services to elderly or disabled persons in order to enhance quality of life.ShareCare Faith In Action is an interfaith network of faith communities and the community at large within the Lehigh Valley which provides volunteers to help people who are elderly and/or disabled and are living independently. ShareCare recruits, trains, and enables volunteers from its member congregations and the community to befriend and assist individuals living with disabilities and without adequate personal support. Its purpose is to provide transporting needs, friendly visiting, reassurance calls, shopping, yard work and light housekeeping. Its mission is to provide needed services that will enhance the dignity, independence, and quality of life, for all participants.
What it reported doing in 2024
In accordance with the organization's mission, all monies from grants, public support and interest were used to develop volunteer training, recruitment and support to make the linkage between the volunteers and the families in need of help.
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 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th 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: NotApplicable
- 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: -0.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $227K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.