Verland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251440761
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sewickley, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4127412375
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,221,370
- Expenses
- $6,293,892
- Assets
- $1,430,424
- Liabilities
- $3,694,384
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LELAND SAPP (CEO)
- CAROL B MITCHELL (DEPUTY CEO & EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR)
- ABIGAYLE M TOBIA (VICE PRESIDENT OF PHILANTHROY)
- WILLIAM F HARRIGER (FORMER CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LELAND SAPP (CEO): $300,291 total reported compensation
- CATHERINE BOGATS (CFO/ASSISTANT TREASURER): $230,232 total reported compensation
- THOMAS SCHMURA (EMPLOYEE & LABOR RELATIONS): $175,246 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Verland operates as the parent company to several corporations whose mission is to establish, support, maintain, advocate and operate residences and programs for the guidance, education, treatment and long term care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, without regard to race, color, creed, sex or national origin.
What it reported doing in 2024
Verland, the parent coporation of the verland system, provides overall general administrative services, direction and control to all entities. The entities reimburse verland on a pro-rata basis for these services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 13th 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: -1.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.58; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $300K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.