Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310537501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Phone
- 513-557-2306
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,811,406
- Expenses
- $1,921,510
- Assets
- $11,868,073
- Liabilities
- $5,984,486
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEROME AUER (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN BITTNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEROME AUER (PRESIDENT): $112,363 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN BITTNER (VICE PRESIDENT): $14,800 total reported compensation
- JAMES BRIGGER (TREASURER): $4,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since 1843, the Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society (CCCS) has provided proper Catholic burials for Catholics; our mission is to preserve, protect, and provide a means for proper Catholic burials and maintenance of burial property for all Catholic congregations in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society began with 19.22 acres at West Eighth Street. More than 150 years later, our legacy of sacred trust continues. Since our beginning, the society's mission has been to preserve, protect, and provide a means for a proper Catholic burial and maintain our cemeteries for all Catholic congregations of the Greater Cincinnati area. Image Return to start of page. We Help Families Plan Funeral Arrangements Contact Us I am writing to thank everyone at the Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society, especially Jerry for being the answer to my prayers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Burial-three cemeteries-includes interment of bodies and remains, disinterment and foundations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.18; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.