Catholic Charities of Louisville

What it reported doing in 2024

Case management services: bakhita empowerment initiative, an anti-human trafficking program, was created in 2007, with a mission to increase awareness of human trafficking, providing training, awareness and technical assistance to professional and community members, engage prevention work, offer outreach to high-risk populations, provide direct services to survivors of trafficking, and increase capacity to address human trafficking issues in Kentucky and the larger anti-trafficking field. Bakhita's vision is to dismantle systems that promote human trafficking, support survivors, and build capacity to address human trafficking at all levels. Today ccl's program employs 4 full-time employees located in louisville and owensboro to provide statewide support to survivors of any age or gender, who have experienced sex or labor trafficking. Bakhita supports foreign born and domestic survivors, ensuring that case management services are individualized to best support each individual. Support was provided to 75 survivors of human trafficking through bakhita, including case management, provision of basic needs (food, clothing, etc.), legal advocacy, interpreter services, immigration legal services, therapy services, technical assistance, and housing assistance. Supportive services help to ensure their personal safety, increase stability, encourage empowerment, and improve the overall well-being of survivors. 662 professionals were trained on issues related to human trafficking. 105 youth were reached through prevention education and awareness.the community support services group encompasses several programs that cater to the needs of our community from birth to death. Originally called family support services, community support services (css) began as the mother infant care program in 2000 to continue the mission of helping young pregnant women in our community after the closure of louisville's infant home. With partial funding from the queen's daughters organization, fss has grown from providing mother/infant care classes to support groups for parents of toddlers, direct aid (rent, utilities, and baby supplies, approximately $30,000) to struggling families, a parish-based walking with moms in need program, and now a family stability program. The family stability program will emphasize learning functional skills such as family budgeting, parenting, accessing community resources and tenant rights and responsibilities. With the addition of access to section 8 vouchers the goal is to prevent families sliding into eviction and homelessness. Family ministries is also an integral part of community support services and with our collaboration with the archdiocese through a shared staff member, programs such as walking with moms in need, senior retreat, programs for family caregivers of ill family members, and grief programs are all being facilitated. Looking forward, research into a "grandparents parenting grandchildren" program has begun with the goal of establishing support groups for this increasing demographic. The father jack jones food pantry started 3 years ago in the basement of holy name church's rectory. It has evolved into a focal point of support for the surrounding community. In fy25 fjjfp served 25,245 individuals. The food pantry could not operate without its team of extremely dedicated volunteers who logged approximately 3,000 hours. Donations directly to the food pantry enable the distribution of meat and other protein sources every week to supplement the food that dare to care provides. The hispanic services program serves asylum seekers and newly arrived hispanic community members, with referrals to resources to start their lives in louisville. The indigent burial program began in its current form in july 2021. Indigent burial provides end of life services for jefferson county residents at little or no cost to families through our work with community partners such as the coroner's office, hospitals, veterans affairs, funeral

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 95.3%; rating input score 95
• Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 97
• Fundraising efficiency: $99.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings