UniqueSource Products & Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231523064
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, US
- Phone
- 800-447-8860
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,654,681
- Expenses
- $96,050,339
- Assets
- $80,306,591
- Liabilities
- $49,640,064
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA BIGGICA (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA BIGGICA (PRESIDENT & CEO): $406,419 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW DICKENS (VP OF SALES): $245,920 total reported compensation
- PHILLIP GRIMES (EVP, BUSINESS OPERATIONS): $218,458 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Employment through UniqueSource enriches lives and serves our customer’s needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Uniquesource operates as the central nonprofit agency whose core mission is to advance employment for pennsylvanians with disabilities, as provided under section 520 of the Pennsylvania procurement code (62 pa.c.s. Sec. 520). Through our partnerships with our members and the commonwealth, uniquesource contracts provide employment for over 2000 pennsylvanians with disabilities each year. Uniquesource and our member network of affirmative employers whose mission focused management and operational structures prioritize providing adaptive technologies, effective accommodations and support to not only meet, but also exceed the requirements of the ada in order to maximize the employment potential of persons with disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.7%; rating input score 99; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $406K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $51M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.