Southeastern Pennsylvania Intergroup Association (SEPIA)
Legal name: Southeastern Pennsylvania Intergroup Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231465485
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Phone
- 215-923-7900
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $286,274
- Expenses
- $303,353
- Assets
- $462,250
- Liabilities
- $130,471
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- FRAN GAUDINI (OFFICE MANAGER): $54,264 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The page text emphasizes keeping meeting information accurate and publishing meeting submissions on SEPIA’s website and Meeting Guide app; it is not a full donor-facing mission statement in the provided crawl snippet. SEPIA needs office volunteers! Call 215-923-7900 to learn more. SEPIA office hours: Monday-Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Volunteers Needed SEPIA needs office volunteers! AA members, recovered alcoholics, give back freely to help the still suffering alcoholic. Giving back what was freely given. AA service committees **work to ensure the AA message reaches people who may need it**. Many alcoholics first hear AA’s message of hope thanks to the work of the volunteers on these committees. SEPIA has many opportunities to provide valuable service, that allows the hand of Alcoholics Anonymous to always be there.
What it reported doing in 2024
Coordination of aa meetings and selling of literature which includes books, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items about the recovery program. Per the bylaws, the purpose of the association shall be the administration and coordination of alcoholics anonymous activities common to the various groups comprising the association's membership in all five areas of bucks, chester, Delaware, montgomery, and philadelphia counties. In addition, the organization creates a cooperative association of all men and women to whom the use of alcohol in any of its forms has become undesirable and to encourage and accomplish abstinence among its members by any and all available activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 28 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $256K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 30 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.