Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860100880
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, United States
- Phone
- 520-623-0344
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,250,460
- Expenses
- $28,188,170
- Assets
- $27,193,704
- Liabilities
- $3,165,300
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donna Zazworsky (Board President)
- Patricia Harms (Board Vice President)
- Tony Fonze (Past Board President)
- Elena Dwyre (Chief Executive Officer)
- Eva Mendez-Counts (Executive Director, Quality & Compliance)
- George Rushing (Executive Director, Children & Family Services)
Highest reported compensation
- Elena Dwyre (Chief Executive Officer): $259,997 total reported compensation
- Jesus Fernandez (Chief Financial Officer): $182,431 total reported compensation
- Eva Mendez-Counts (Executive Director, Quality & Compliance): $145,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We strengthen children, adults, families and communities by providing help, creating hope and serving all. Encourages, supports or restores self-reliance and self-determination through program design and delivery Encourages others to perform acts of charity Advocates for a just and compassionate society. Our Values In Action In order to accomplish our Mission, CCS: Responds to the call of the Gospel: _“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.”.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family and Children's Services: The goal of Catholic Community Services' Family and Children's Services is to help build strong and healthy families in which children are protected, happy and thriving. CCS helps meet immediate/fundamental needs, helps those in transition to become stable, and supports families as they achieve strong, secure, and independent lives. These programs are provided in a variety of locations with varied goals. Pio Decimo Center provided 2004 individuals with food, clothing, and household items. 20 families were helped with transitional housing. 21 families served- 69 individuals (35 adults and 34 children) were housed in Transitional Housing. 35 families were able to maintain their living situation through eviction prevention. CCS programs for children/families included: child abuse prevention; 425 parents supported in addiction treatment to achieve permanency with their children; 70 children in foster family care; 195 Kinship families supported. 111 children were served with low-cost day care and after school programs. The volunteers and staff in the tax services program prepared over 10,840 tax returns for low-income families, resulting in over $8,433,299 million in tax refunds. Taxpayer clinic of So AZ supported 81 low-income taxpayers with controversy and provided tax consultation to 122 individuals. Migration and Refugee Services resettled 220 refugees and enrolled 517 in Refugee Social Service Program. Immigration legal services provided 405 consultations and managed 192 cases.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: 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: -3.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $22.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $260K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.