The Sparrow Enterprise
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232966710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Red Lion, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172465556
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,985
- Expenses
- $65,394
- Assets
- $120,985
- Liabilities
- $315,822
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH BARRY SR (CEO)
- RUTH LANDSMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOLEEN BARRY (EXECUTIVE DI)
- JOSEPH BARRY SR (CEO)
- JEANNE STEWERT (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support to individuals with disabilities in a natural environment at home and in the community; and, to provide that support in a manner that affords them the dignity and respect due to everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide home & community habilitation services for individuals with developmental disabilities in a natural environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.5%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.61; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.5% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.