Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411744184
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
St. Paul, MN, US
Phone
651-389-0300
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$107,256,547
Expenses
$52,608,867
Assets
$751,710,677
Liabilities
$393,061,045

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNE CULLEN MILLER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANNE CULLEN MILLER (PRESIDENT): $446,041 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER NELSON (EXECUTIVE VP OF DEVELOPMENT & DONOR ENGAGEMENT): $260,866 total reported compensation
  • CASEY J SCOTT (VP OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION): $212,010 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 support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of our Catholic community._ We believe our mission is sacred. It’s a faithful, generous response to the many blessings we’ve received. Through our mission, we invite our Catholic community to walk spiritual ground, doing service that’s profound, compassionate, and perpetual. Our Impact. Sacred and Communal _To support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of our Catholic community._.

What it reported doing in 2024

The foundation inspires catholic philanthropy and invests, manages, and distributes charitable assets as guided by our donors and our catholic identity.the foundation facilitates planned and current gifts to endowments and donor advised funds which financially support needs in our catholic community. In the past year, over 1,200 catholic parishes, schools and other organizations benefited from over 4,600 grants from the foundation, totaling nearly $45.3m.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some related-organization disclosures are missing.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $27.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 51%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.29; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $446K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 38 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 512 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 504 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.