Somerset Area Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270071752
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Somerset, PA, USA
Phone
8144452698
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Transportation Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,136
Expenses
$60,528
Assets
$124,908

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID MCCALL (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BRENDA BENNER (ASST TREAS)
  • COREY NAU (VICE PRESIDE)
  • REV CHARLES OLSON JR (TREASURER)

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

To provide free transportation services for local residents to area hospitals and to doctor appointments. The corporation also provides various social helping services.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide free transportation for residents of somerset and surrounding counties to doctor, hospital appointments and visits and other appointments of this nature in the pittsburgh and johnstown areas. During the year the organization transported 450 individuals on 286 trips.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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

STRONG - 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: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98

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: -5.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.06; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 33/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.