Variety the Children's Charity of the Delaware Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231556195
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Worcester, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6105844366
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,967,974
- Expenses
- $3,846,820
- Assets
- $13,251,309
- Liabilities
- $614,993
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIBETH SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
- BOB HERBEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DOMINIQUE BERNARDO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DOMINIQUE BERNARDO (CEO): $186,467 total reported compensation
- LISA DEGORI (DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING/HR): $106,949 total reported compensation
- NICHOLAS LARCINESE (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS): $98,708 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build independence and self-confidence in children and youth with disabilities by engaging them in vocational, recreational, social, and educational enrichment activities, while connecting families to resources. Variety serves children between ages 5 and 24 with temporary and/or permanent disabilities resulting from injury, illness, or congenital conditons. The organization serves over 10,000 children in the greater Delaware valley area including southeastern Pennsylvania, south jersey, and Delaware.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization operates an innovative workforce development model called varietyworks that serves young adults with disabilities ages 14-24. Varietyworks seeks to transition these young adults into jobs that match their skills, interests and independence levels. Program components include assessment, on site job skills training, community training, and one-on-one job coaching. Variety also provides summer and academic year vocational programming which provides a safe and secure environment for students with disabilities, where they can learn and build social connections while engaging in vocational and "cottage craft" activities.the organization offers day camp, overnight camp, and extended school year programs during the summer for children ages 5-21 on its 77-acre campus located in worcester, pa. These programs serve as feeder programs into the formalized vocational programming offered throughout the year. Variety also offers a satellite summer camp at temple university to provide an enriching, inclusive camp experience to children in an urban setting. The organization provides after school programming on campus and in philadelphia at partner sites during the academic year. The programs offer high-quality educational activities, socialization opportunities, and cultural exposure for children with disabilities. Activities may include steam, adapted dance, martial arts, arts and crafts, sports and games, and culinary techniques.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $36.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: 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: 44.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $186K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $122K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.