Damascus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208398029
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Centerburg, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145378504
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,117,153
- Expenses
- $11,153,109
- Assets
- $31,985,871
- Liabilities
- $7,824,823
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL DEMATTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - MISSION)
- AARON RICHARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - OPERATION)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL DEMATTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - MISSION): $166,910 total reported compensation
- AARON RICHARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - OPERATION): $123,350 total reported compensation
- SAM HALLIGAN (ADVANCEMENT DIRECTOR): $114,913 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 awaken, empower and equip a generation to live the adventure of the catholic faith through world-class programs and an environment of encounter.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transformational retreats for catholic schools and parishes are offered missionaries served the organization during the 2024 year. During the non-camping season. These retreats are bringing entire schools to jesus. Retreats offered include those focused on confirmation, faith & science, leadership, and specific high school curriculum. Facilities are able to accommodate up to 5 simultaneous retreats. Adult and student conferences are staffed by missionaries and mission staff. Retreats are also ran offsite by our national team. For the fiscal year over 8,500 retreatants were served.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.