Catholic Charities Diocese of Madison

Legal name: Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
390807067
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Madison, WI, US
Phone
(608) 826-8000
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,188,237
Expenses
$10,444,696
Assets
$26,951,557
Liabilities
$4,157,631

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHAWN CARNEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHAWN CARNEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $191,798 total reported compensation
  • SANDRA LAMPMAN (DIRECTOR OF MISSION EFFECTIVENESS): $156,199 total reported compensation
  • KELLY MEDENWALDT (CHIEF PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $149,668 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To demonstrate Christ’s love and justice by caring in faith for the human family. Catholic Charities, guided by the principles of Catholic teaching, provides services to more than 17,000 individuals and families every year. Catholic Charities works in close partnership with the Catholic Church to provide a wide range of social services throughout Southern Wisconsin. Our service area comprises the 11 counties that make up the Diocese of Madison, where we support individuals and families facing challenges such as poverty, homelessness, disabilities, aging, addiction, health and wellbeing, and food insecurity. Our Mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

Family services - includes building bridges, face kids, school and youth counseling. Family service area served 1,042 clients through building bridges (bb), face kids, parish school counseling, student wellness and youth wellness programs. Through bb, a collaboration with dane county human services and area school districts a team of two mental health and/or social work professionals provides 90 day crisis stabilization and prevention services to students in grades 4k-9 with immediate mental health needs as well as their family and their school team. Face kind provides social-emotional wellness groups for dane county youth in grades k-12. Parish school counseling provides supporting counseling, guidance classes and consultation at catholic schools who contract the service. Student wellness provides social-emotional wellness support to students in 4k-12 employing master level mental health clinicians who work with school staff to design and implement student wellness services. Youth wellness provides behavioral health support and referral services to 3rd-6th grade students attending after school community center programming at the deerfield community center.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 93%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

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: 6.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $8.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $372K reported
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.