Catholic Social Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470751554
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024741600
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,679,054
- Expenses
- $7,138,854
- Assets
- $3,334,096
- Liabilities
- $381,689
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS BROUILLETTE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BISHOP JAMES D CONLEY (PRESIDENT)
- KATIE PATRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KATIE PATRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $91,517 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 perform the works of mercy in response to the call of god. Our corporal works of mercy performed primarily include providing food, clothing, shelter, and prison ministry. Our spiritual works of mercy performed primarily include counseling, instructing, and comforting.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gift and thrift - material relief through our gift and thrift stores in lincoln, hastings, imperial, and auburn Nebraska. The stores sell clothing, household items, furniture, and appliances at reasonable prices. We call our thrift store activity, "giving squared; a donor provides css with an in-kind gift, which we can provide to a needy family at below market prices and any cash profits earned are given away again through our assistance programs. The 'gift' portion of the stores is managed through our voucher program. Our case workers identify families who would benefit from an in-kind item and offer them a voucher to the gift and thrift store. The family can then shop in our clean, organized, well-lighted stores along with other customers, thus respecting their dignity. The voucher can be used to offset or eliminate the cost of the item.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
- 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 84.2%; rating input score 84; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 23rd 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $6.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.