Community Action Agency of St Louis County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237037248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Overland, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148630015
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,214,071
- Expenses
- $14,158,266
- Assets
- $6,213,067
- Liabilities
- $3,113,190
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA HUNTSPON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK KURTZ (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $146,136 total reported compensation
- LINDA HUNTSPON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $135,314 total reported compensation
- COLLEEN DONAHUE (PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION DIR.): $131,214 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 stabilize and enrich vulnerable households by instilling hope and creating pathways to empowerment. We are committed to helping the families and communities of st. Louis county transition from poverty to self-sufficiency for present and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community services: community programming covers a variety of services including: family and economic security - family case management, drug & alcoholeducation, anger management, employment development, life skills, andreentry support for returning citizens; youth services - youth case management, high school equivalency test(hiset), and reality enrichment and life lessons (reall); community outreach - poverty simulations, job fairs & hiring events, and step up to leadership; (continued on schedule o)health & nutrition - drive-through food pantry and community supportedagriculture.in fiscal year 2025, community services program assisted 3,690 familiesand a total of 7,441 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,559.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd 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; 66th 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: 0.4%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 20 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $3.2M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.