Covenant Place Senior Center Inc D/b/a Mirowitz Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810697852
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144321610
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $616,328
- Expenses
- $939,531
- Assets
- $10,509,409
- Liabilities
- $30,354
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOAN DENISON (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOAN DENISON (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $295,014 total reported compensation
- NANCY HAWK (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $146,164 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mirowitz center (the center) creates a vibrant, engaging community for seniors and helps residents of covenant place apartments and older adults in the greater community live independently and with dignity. The caring, supportive services provided through the center for covenant place apartments residents and seniors in the broader community promote health, psychological and social well-being, and help older adults to successfully age in place. Some of the ongoing programs funded and/or delivered through the center include: kosher and non-kosher meals, exercise classes, health and wellness programs, life-long learning opportunities, entertainment, and programs to promote socialization and decrease isolation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mirowitz center provides a broad array of programs, classes, and resources to help seniors stay engaged, well, and independent. With offerings of 60+ classes and programs each month the mirowitz center is a place where active seniors explore new interests, meet up with old friends and make new ones, exercise their minds and bodies, participate in mental wellness support groups, and enjoy learning new skills ranging from technology to improv classes. Classes are offered in person and online at no or nominal cost, to ensure there is no barrier to participation. Medical offices (physical therapy and counseling) are available on-site; banking, and st. Louis county library services, are also available several times a month.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.19; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -54.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $827K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $295K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 8 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.