Grace Hill Settlement House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237216273
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3146153600
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,420,452
- Expenses
- $6,149,328
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DELORES HARDWICK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DELORES HARDWICK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $63,925 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to be stronger, healthier, and more self-reliant.
What it reported doing in 2020
Early childhood: grace hill settlement house works toward ensuring that every child, every family, and every community has the opportunity to succeed. The cornerstone of grace hill's program offerings is head start - serving hundreds of children at community centers across the city of st. Louis. Excellent education and a comprehensive network of support uplift the entire family. In partnership with parents and community members, children have the opportunity to attend events at the saint louis science center, art museum, and symphony as well as the Missouri botanical gardens. By creating enriching, hands-on learning experiences, children are prepared to become lifelong learners and parents are engaged as their child's first educators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -154.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.