Washington County Community Foundation

What it reported doing in 2025

Community leadership the foundation works to identify and address community issues and opportunities and also serves as a leader and convener. For years we have hosted free educational sessions for local nonprofits on a variety of topics impacting the sector. While we had been pleased with the results of those sessions, we knew that a more comprehensive educational program was needed. In response, we developed the community pillars program which provides in-depth educational sessions on six broad topics: mission, strategy & evaluation; governance & leadership; legal compliance & ethics; finance & operations; fundraising & resource development; and public awareness & advocacy. The pillars program was modeled after an accreditation tool of the Pennsylvania association of nonprofit organizations, a leading authority on nonprofit governance and management. The pillars program convened its third annual class in the fall of 2025 with 14 participants completing the program. Launched in 2023, wccf's community snapshot is an innovative needs assessment tool connecting charities and donors with timely, actionable community data. Informed by ongoing research, focus groups, and an annual survey, the platform is refreshed each year across eight focus areas and Washington county's broader nonprofit landscape, ensuring every community member has access to the most current insights available. In 2025, significant enhancements made the platform more data-driven, delivering deeper analysis and more robust reporting than ever before. What truly distinguishes community snapshot from other needs assessments is its ability to go beyond broad trends. Nonprofits can directly list their specific organizational needs on the site, creating a one-of-a-kind resource that bridges the gap between community-wide challenges and the frontline organizations addressing them. The result is a single, centralized destination where donors, funders, and community members can grasp both the big picture and the ground-level realities shaping our region. The impact speaks for itself. Donors have embraced the platform enthusiastically, directing more than $100,000 in grants to needs identified directly through community snapshot.annually, the foundation hosts a giving event, wccf gives, which is conducted over several months. Community giving begins on august 1 with check contributions and concludes on a designated day in september when credit card contributions are also accepted from 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. Via a dedicated website. The wccf does not charge any fees to charities or donors to participate in wccf gives and annually secures a prize pool to encourage giving. Cumulatively, more than $15,680,000 in grants has been issued through wccf gives.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
• Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
• Fundraising efficiency: $18.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th 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: 90.1%; rating input score 90; 32nd 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; 63rd 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: 22.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.38; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings