Covenant Place

Legal name: B'nai B'rith Covenant House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237248078
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2018
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2018
Location
St. Louis, MO, US
Phone
314-432-1610
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSH CORSON (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • HOWARD ROSEN (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOAN DENISON (PRESIDENT AND CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOAN DENISON (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $208,857 total reported compensation
  • NANCY HAWK (CONTROLLER): $93,415 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER SCHMITZ (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $60,339 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Providing quality of life and affordable housing for older adults in St. Louis, Missouri.

What it reported doing in 2018

Through june 30, 2016, b'nai b'rith provided apartment rental housing for senior citizens pursuant to section 236 of the national housing act. All former residents have moved to a new affordable rental housing building operated by a related entity and b'nai b'rith has ceased operations. The b'nai b'rith legal entity dissolved on march 6, 2019.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $209K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 10 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.