York County Community Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
236299868
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
York, PA, USA
Phone
7178483733
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,493,761
Expenses
$12,625,981
Assets
$224,451,420
Liabilities
$65,164,039

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANE M CONOVER (PRESIDENT, CEO (THRU 1/24))
  • NATALEE GUNDERSON (PRESIDENT, CEO (START 3/24))
  • MARY KAY BERNOSKY (VICE-PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ADRIAN BUCKNER (VP FOR COMMUNITY INVESTMENT): $241,815 total reported compensation
  • NATALEE GUNDERSON (PRESIDENT, CEO (START 3/24)): $172,961 total reported compensation
  • MEREDITH SCHREFFLER (VP FINANCE & OPERATIONS): $157,281 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We create a vibrant york county by engaging donors, providing community leadership and investing in high impact initiatives while building endowment for future generations.

What it reported doing in 2024

York county community foundation's grantmaking program reaches broadly across all charitable sectors serving york county Pennsylvania, as evidenced by more than 1,460 grants to 387 charitable organizations. Major grant programs include yccf's fund for york county and grant support through agency endowments. Grant support is provided by both competitive applications and non-competitive designations. York county community foundation strives to be our donors' first choice to achieve their charitable goals and a place to invest in community transformation. York county community foundation has met the nation's highest philanthropic standards for operational quality, integrity and accountability as confirmed through the council on foundation's national standards for u.s. Community foundations program. The program is designed to provide quality assurance to donors, as well as to their legal and financial advisors. Yccf also earned the platinum seal of transparency from guidestar by providing authoritative data from several validated sources, including 990s.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • 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: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 27th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.78; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $463K reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 204 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 200 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.