Christian Community Response Team
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883809589
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pontiac, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2484999621
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $699,682
- Expenses
- $800,073
- Assets
- $333,690
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barbara Williams (Executive Director)
- Joseph Pauwels (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Barbara Williams (Executive Director): $13,737 total reported compensation
- Carol Kranz (Treasurer): $4,742 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families in their home or assist unhoused persons to get into and maintain housing. Provide a Christian compassionate response to those in need primarily within but not limited to the City of Pontiac. Provide intake services and assessments based on client needs to build a relationship in order to overcome small hurdles which hinder self-sustainability. Coordinate our efforts with other community agencies and providers to make the best use of available resources and to provide appropriate referrals to broaden the scope of our response.
What it reported doing in 2024
Christian commuity response team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. Our focus is to keep families in their home or assist unhoused persons to get into and maintain housing. We provide a christian compassionate response to those in need primarily within but not limited to the city of pontiac. We also provide intake services and assessments based on client needs in order to provide a path to self sustainability coordinating our efforts with other community agencies and provider to make the best use of available resources.and to.provide appropriate referrals to broaden the scope of our response
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Missing
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 101.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 66.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -26.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 10 filed program accomplishments · $408K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.