Catholic Charities of Omaha

Legal name: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470376612
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
402.554.0520
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,182,210
Expenses
$10,367,810
Assets
$3,976,224
Liabilities
$1,175,247

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNIE MESSERSMITH (PRESIDENT)
  • RYAN SEVCIK (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DENISE BARTELS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETA)

Highest reported compensation

  • DENISE BARTELS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETA): $205,434 total reported compensation
  • DAVID VANKAT (CHIEF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT): $157,337 total reported compensation
  • WILL SCHWALB (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $149,864 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

As a Christ-centered organization, and with mercy as the foundation, we seek to transform the world by sharing God’s mercy and compassionate love with all people. We are 90% dependent upon donors. Any amount, in any format, supports our mission and those we serve. []( PARTNER. We depend on our generous and compassionate community partners to help provide hope in our community. [](. An enriching experience that matches your interests and fills a community need []( GIVE. For nearly a century, Catholic Charities has ministered to the greatest and most fundamental needs of our community – providing food to the hungry, safety to the endangered, and support to those who are suffering – regardless of race, religion, creed, or socioeconomic status. Together with countless volunteers and...

What it reported doing in 2024

Community support - community-based services to the poor, including emergency food pantries and empowerment programs: catholic charities' community-based services provide emergency food assistance (food pantries) in north and south omaha, mobile food pantries with distributions within omaha and other locations. Family enrichment programs help families identify short term goals that have an immediate impact on the quality of their lives as well as provide workshops and forums that provide them with the skills and information to achieve their goals. Our senior services offer educational, financial, community and social activities for our older adults. The christmas program coordinates an adopt-a-family program to provide food and gifts to low-income families. Our microbusiness program provides education and training for individuals in the north and south omaha community who would like to start their own business. Immigration legal assistance services help clients with filing out uscis forms, provides legal consultations in which we evaluate clients' immigration legal options, advise them how to proceed and represent them throughout the legal process. Services include: consultations, translation, change of address, green card renewals, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, naturalization applications and vawa and u-visa applications.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
  • 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th 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: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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; 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: -1.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $205K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $527K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.