Valley Youth House

Legal name: Valley Youth House Committee Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237178820
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bethlehem, PA, US
Phone
(610) 820-0166
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,344,817
Expenses
$47,543,297
Assets
$36,806,453
Liabilities
$9,247,989

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • THOMAS HARRINGTON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • THOMAS QUINN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SHANI MEACHAM (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTINA SCHOEMAKER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LISA WEINGARTNER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • THOMAS HARRINGTON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $432,553 total reported compensation
  • LISA WEINGARTNER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $354,962 total reported compensation
  • THOMAS QUINN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $276,834 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Valley youth house empowers and strengthens the lives of children, youth, and families through inclusive programming that builds resilience and fosters growth and independence.

What it reported doing in 2024

Emergency services valley youth house has two emergency youth shelters, five street outreach program and one designated access point drop in center. Vyh's two shelters are located in lehigh and bucks counties and provide 24 hour a day, 365 days a year, walk-in crisis intervention, short-term residency, counseling and life skills education to youth between the ages of 12 and 20 at the lehigh valley shelter and ages 8 to 20 at the bucks county shelter. Five street outreach programs serve allentown, philadelphia county, bucks county, montgomery county, and dauphin county providing emergency supplies (food, hygiene products, camping gear, etc.), counseling and linkages to community resources to ensure youth safety. A team of outreach workers operate from vehicles that are stocked with emergency supplies such as food, clothing, camping gear and hygiene products. Youth are served in at locations in the community where street youth are known to congregate, including malls, parks, along rivers and railroad tracks, and in adult homeless encampments. In philadelphia, vyh has a youth designated access point that assesses and/or supports homeless young people to find housing or other resources in the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $39.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $433K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.