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Aid For Friends

EIN 23-2072722Human Services Pennsylvania Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Food and friendship; little miracles love can bring

Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly, in the five county Greater Philadelphia area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins with free outreach services. The goal is to help our homebound client/friends maintain their cherished independence by supporting their determination to remain in their own homes for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life. Since our inception in 1974 - we have delivered more than 13 million free meals to over 11,900 shut-ins. Our visitors have volunteered more than 1.5 million hours of compassionate visiting with their shut-in client/friends.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

75.04Overall score
out of 100

87.50Financial score
out of 100

67.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,358,223

Total expenses · USD$2,456,979

Program expenses

$2,265,334.64 recorded amount

92.2%

Fundraising expenses

$54,053.54 recorded amount

2.2%

Administrative expenses

$132,676.87 recorded amount

5.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.02 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Steve Schiavone
Recorded compensation: $72,031.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.93%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Aid For Friends
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	67.0
`category` Category	Human Services
`description` Mission & description	Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly, in the five county Greater Philadelphia area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins with free outreach services. The goal is to help our homebound client/friends maintain their cherished independence by supporting their determination to remain in their own homes for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life. Since our inception in 1974 - we have delivered more than 13 million free meals to over 11,900 shut-ins. Our visitors have volunteered more than 1.5 million hours of compassionate visiting with their shut-in client/friends.
`ein` EIN	23-2072722
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2456979.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.054000000000000006
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.02
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.022000000000000002
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.922
`fscore` Financial score	87.5
`leader` Recorded leader	Steve Schiavone
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	72031.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.029300000000000003
`motto` Tagline	Food and friendship; little miracles love can bring
`name` Charity name	Aid For Friends
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2358223.0
`score` Overall score	75.04
`state` State code	PA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Social Services
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	2265334.6380000003
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	54053.53800000001
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	132676.866

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 23-2072722
Source category: Human Services
Source subcategory: Social Services
Recorded location: Pennsylvania (PA)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.