Catholic Fraternal Life
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362201108
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Belleville, IL, US
- Phone
- (800)240-2554
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,273,393
- Expenses
- $39,790,062
- Assets
- $221,170,906
- Liabilities
- $206,784,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sandra H Bouchard (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Sandra H Bouchard (President/CEO): $214,940 total reported compensation
- Michelle Hankinson (Preneed Regional Director): $190,570 total reported compensation
- Craig Liadis (Preneed Regional Director): $146,343 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide families with financial security and to promote goodwill throughout our communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing members and their families with financially sound insurance products.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 17th 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: 3.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.56; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 14 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 20 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $215K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $317K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.