Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri
Legal name: Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800455890
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4177204213
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,714,552
- Expenses
- $10,076,377
- Assets
- $13,902,465
- Liabilities
- $4,416,576
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GERRY SALTER (PRESIDENT)
- MARK A WEIDENBENNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEVE FRYE (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KEN PALERMO (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEN PALERMO (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $177,610 total reported compensation
- JEFF WISKUR (CFO/FINANCE DIRECTOR): $132,293 total reported compensation
- SUZANNE CRONKHITE (CAO): $117,069 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Motivated by the love of Christ, Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri seeks to improve the lives of the vulnerable by providing quality, compassionate social services, which meet local needs. Program Description LifeHouse is a residential program for pregnant women experiencing homelessness aged 18 or older. Each resident can have one child under the age of five with them. The mission of LifeHouse is to provide a safe, nurturing home and supportive services for women who have chosen life for their unborn child. LifeHouse is not just a shelter, but a comprehensive program with the goal of creating a better life for mother and child. LifeHouse provides case management, food and shelter, counseling, and so much more. Need help now? Call **417-720-4213** (LifeHouse in Springfield) or **573-803-5433 or 573-275-8835** (LifeHouse in Cape Girardeau).
What it reported doing in 2024
Maternal and family programs provide both residential and nonresidential services to pregnant women and families facing unplanned pregnancies. Lifehouse crisis maternity home provides transitional housing and on-site comprehensive services to homeless pregnant women and their young children for up to a year after delivery. Lifehouse on average serves 116 homeless women, their infants and young children a year. The aftercare programs assists women and children as they transition to permanent housing providing services that help them to achieve their long-term goal of self- sufficiency. The nonresidential program provides pregnancy and parenting support throughout southern Missouri and served over 87 households in the 2025 fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $2.2M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.