Emmaus Center for Spirituality
Legal name: Emmaus Center for Spirituality Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831675666
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, United States
- Phone
- 980-505-5342
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,265
- Expenses
- $15,214
- Assets
- $34,120
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Hatton (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ann Hatton (Executive Director)
- Deborah Delano (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
_The Emmaus Center seeks to serve those who desire to explore, deepen and enhance their own spirituality and relationship with God._. Carrying Out Our Mission Grounded in Ignatian spirituality, we carry out our Mission by offering: Spiritual direction. Grounded in Ignatian spirituality, we carry out our Mission by offering: Spiritual direction The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The spiritual directors at the Emmaus Center for Spirituality fully embrace our Mission Statement. We abide by a Community Covenant which identifies and governs our behaviors, practices and thinking. In addition, the spiritual directors of the Emmaus Center further agree to abide by a Code of Ethics as a part of his or her membership in the Emmaus Center community. The Emmaus Center for Spirituality is a 501(c)(3) organization. We welcome your donations to support our work in carrying out our...
What it reported doing in 2025
World on Fire Spiritual Direction Formation program with 8 students enrolled. Four year low residency program to form spiritual directors, with annual week-long intensive. Residency intensive week held August 2nd to August 8th at St. Francis Springs prayer center in Stoneville, NC. Participants who meet all requirements leave the program after 4 years with a Certificate in Spiritual Direction.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.