York College of Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352698
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- York, PA, United States
- Phone
- 7178156579
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,850,420
- Expenses
- $147,886,686
- Assets
- $577,760,684
- Liabilities
- $118,051,987
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS BURNS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS BURNS (PRESIDENT): $820,952 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE HEINE (HEADMASTER, YCDS (UNTIL 6/25)): $276,168 total reported compensation
- C MATTHEW SMITH (INTERIM VP FINANCE/CFO(UNTIL 05/25)): $268,312 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
York College of Pennsylvania prepares graduates for productive and purposeful lives through a high-quality, private education centered on personal development, close faculty/student mentoring relationships, and real-world experiences. York College prepares its graduates for productive and purposeful lives. As a diverse community of educators and learners, we provide a high-quality, private education that emphasizes personal development, close faculty/student mentoring relationships, and real-world experiences. We partner with our community for the benefit of both our students and the broader region. We strive to make this world-class, private education financially accessible. About YCP.
What it reported doing in 2024
York college of Pennsylvania is recognized as one of the best regional universities in the north (us news and world report and princeton review), reflected by the excellence of our programs, the quality of our 168 fulltime faculty, with 90% holding their terminal degree, the 13:1 student to faculty ratio, 19 student average class size and 70+ majors and the distinctiveness of our approximately 3,300 fulltime students. York college is recognized for the over 800 graduates per year who are competent, engaged professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit prepared to compete in the global arena. We seek to be an innovator and a catalyst for change both in higher education and the broader community in which we reside.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
- 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.3%; rating input score 91; 40th 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: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.91; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $128.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $821K · 36 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.5M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.