Catherines Family and Youth Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473335842
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4438470587
- Rating
- 27
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,000
- Expenses
- $209,872
- Assets
- $9,050
- Liabilities
- $9,050
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VALARIE MATTHEWS (Executive Director)
- JAWAN L HOPWOOD (President)
- MONIQUE EMANUEL (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- VALARIE MATTHEWS (Executive Director): $65,000 total reported compensation
- KODON LEARY (CFO): $56,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist with improving the quality of life of the residents in Northwest Baltimore City and Surrounding Areas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Summer Youth Enrichment Camp to provide a safe summer learning space that provide enrichment programming, mentoring, healthy cooking classes, enrichment field trips, skill building and leadership development programs that help enrich the lives of our Baltimore City youth during the summer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 78% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.1%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 2
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.1% of revenue deployed · 2.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $214K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 13 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.