Catholic Charities of Ingham, Eaton & Clinton Counties
Legal name: Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381779460
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- (517) 372-4700
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,673,832
- Expenses
- $8,682,735
- Assets
- $13,614,899
- Liabilities
- $2,243,923
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steven Japinga (President)
- Joseph Garcia (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Joseph Garcia (CEO): $187,308 total reported compensation
- Aimee Brookens DO (Pediatrician): $185,089 total reported compensation
- Andrea Boruta (CFO): $132,827 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rooted in Jesus’ love and guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church, we are dedicated to serving those in need through the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. We promote respect for the dignity and sanctity of human life and strive to strengthen families, nurturing the compassion and justice central to our faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
International and refugee services: Refugee services is the receiving program in Mid-Michigan, through which refugees resettle in the community. Refugee services assist in arranging housing, healthcare, and community orientation for refugees. The employment activities offer services for refugees as follows: job development, placement, and retention to newly arrived refugees, as well as those seeking job upgrades. Supportive services offered include job readiness skill training, English as a second language (ESL) classes, ESL tutors, mental health services and linguistic support in applying for and securing daycare, subsidized housing, emergency food and household assistance, low income health insurance and supplemental case management for refugees who have resided in the US over five years. Immigration legal services provide to community members across Mid-Michigan, regardless of immigration status, a wide spectrum of low cost immigration services, such as family reunification, adjustment of status, citizenship, asylum and removal defense.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.