Catholic Charities Diocese of Kalamazoo
Legal name: Catholic Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382072348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- Phone
- (269) 381-9800
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,052,036
- Expenses
- $3,491,270
- Assets
- $1,451,886
- Liabilities
- $242,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF BRENNAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TONI NEWELL (EXECUTIVE DI): $114,910 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 are God's hands providing housing, health, and hope to His children. Local Wellness Policy for the Ark Shelter The Ark helps youth and families who are in crisis become stable, develop strong and healthy relationships, and develop positive, achievable goals for the future. The Ark seeks to provide a safe place for youth and families to work on their goals, to reunite youth with their families, to empower youth to identify healthy lifestyle behaviors and to develop positive decision-making skills. The Ark Shelter is physically located in Kalamazoo but serves youth and their families in nine counties across southwest Michigan. The Ark Shelter is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is always available via the crisis line Which is 1-800-873-8336. The Ark works.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ark is located in kalamazoo and is the only short-term crisis intervention shelter serving youth ages 10-17 in the nine counties served by the diocese of kalamazoo. The ark serves youth who have run away; are in danger of being homeless; or are experiencing a crisis. Youth stay up to 21 days and receive counseling, support services, and aftercare services at no charge. The goal is to unite and strengthen families or help homeless youth find alternative safe and stable housing. The ark youth independent living program helps homeless youth ages 16-21 to find housing, complete their education, and find employment. The ark outreach program helps homeless youth on the streets, offers free education and prevention workshops in schools and other organizations and helps promote the ark services. Through community support, assistance in the form of household items were distributed to eligible youth served through these programs.
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 94% 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -14.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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
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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 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.