The Program for Women and Families Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222731797
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Allentown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104336556
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $517,838
- Expenses
- $583,683
- Assets
- $347,639
- Liabilities
- $37,197
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANET E MOISEY (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINE F LENCI (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH KING (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR JOYCE DOUGHERTY (EXEC DIRECTOR): $62,038 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The program for women and families provides adult offenders, their families and at-risk youth with opportunities to build healthy and productive lives.
What it reported doing in 2014
Alpha serves a population of male and female adolescents who either have dropped out or have been permanently expelled from school and are under the supervision of lehigh county juvenile probation. The overriding goal of alpha is to reduce recidivism among juvenile offenders, breaking what all too often becomes a generational cycle of crime and delinquency. There are four main service components to alpha: 1) assessment of educational functioning level; 2) academic instruction; 3) behavioral instruction; and 4) job readiness training. Before beginning any alpha classes, students are assessed to determine their educational functioning level. Based on the results of this assessment, they are placed in one of two alpha academic tracks, both of which include behavioral instruction and job readiness training. Students who test at least at a 9th grade level are placed in the ged preparation track and those who test well below a 9th grade level are place in the academic remediation track. Alpha's behavioral instruction classes focus on improving life and social skills associated with reducing recidivism among delinquent youth. Those skills include self-awareness, value clarification, anger management, and effective communication. Alpha's job readiness training utilizes the evidence-based crossroads jobtec curriculum. Jobtec classes are designed to facilitate the development of pro-social life skill competencies and reinforce positive behavioral changes that promote success in the workplace.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 22nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -27.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.4% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $483K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 to 2014
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.