Som Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
384049272
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carlisle, PA, USA
Phone
7174480602
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,317
Expenses
$13,355
Assets
$1,013
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jeanna Som (Administrative Director)
  • Andrew Som (Co-founder)
  • Melissa McGowan (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a public charity dedicated to helping individuals, who find themselves in crisis situations, with emergent basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, utility bills and various other expenses that will help the individual build a sustainable future living situation. We also partner with Central PA Family Support Services to provide coaching that tends to the emotional and mental well-being of the families and individuals we serve.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the 2025 calendar year, The Som Foundation provided $12,255 in help to cover emergent basic needs for families in Cumberland County. This included rental payments, clothing, food and gas gift cards as well as helping families and individuals with physical needs. To do this The Som Foundation partnered with Central PA Family Support Services to tend to emotional and mental health needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -166.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -67.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.