Volunteer English Program in Chester County Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222685077
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6109188222
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $200,910
- Expenses
- $326,850
- Assets
- $265,182
- Liabilities
- $80,655
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VALERIE A ROZEK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VALERIE A ROZEK (PRESIDENT)
- MARY VILTER ESQ (VICE PRESIDE)
- TOM TRAVERS CPA (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The volunteer english program connects volunteers with adult english language learners to provide one-to-one tutoring and cultural enrichment that empowers immigrants to be successful.
What it reported doing in 2024
Vep provides free one-to-one english language tutoring and u.s. Civics instruction. Through the organization's efforts, adults have found employment, established family-owned businesses, increased financial stability, purchased homes, raised families, and become u.s. Citizens. 236 volunteers provided over 10,694 hours of instruction and operational support to over 250 active students. The program coordinated community based conversation groups, speakers' bureau presentations, and community volunteer opportunities to further enhance students' overall language and cultural learning experiences. Vep expanded a phoenixville and coatesville focused program outreach to support underserved adults in regional communities. Vep is an active participant in the united way of chester county's financial stability partnership and informally partners with many organizations throughout the area to promote personal, cultural, and financial independence for immigrants and refugees in chester county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $226K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.