Guild

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411669233
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6519258450
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,471,086
Expenses
$20,110,263
Assets
$14,496,200
Liabilities
$5,804,530

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Trish Thacker (Chief Executive Officer)

Highest reported compensation

  • John Vuchetich (Psychiatrist): $302,127 total reported compensation
  • Trish Thacker (Chief Executive Officer): $278,716 total reported compensation
  • Keith Rachey- CFO Consultant (Chief Business Officer(Beg Dec 2025)): $276,846 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Guild offers integrated mental health, housing, and employment services to individuals living with mental illness and/or experiencing chronic homelessness.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Treatment ServicesThe Community Treatment service line includes Targeted Case Management (TCM), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Youth ACT, Employment Services, and the Community Support Program (CSP) Member Center. These programs served 852 individuals experiencing serious or persistent mental health challenges. Services are designed to provide community-based support that minimizes psychiatric hospitalization, strengthens community connections, and helps clients achieve employment goals through individualized case management and connections to community resources.Targeted Case Management demonstrated positive outcomes, with 80% of clients making progress toward their behavioral health goals and 74% achieving their overall treatment goals.ACT and Youth ACT provided weekly services and met annual service goals. Among ACT participants, 76% made on a plan goal.Employment Services, using the Individualized Placement and Support (IPS) model, successfully placed 49% of 162 participants in competitive employment or supported continued employment, with more than half maintaining employment for extended periods.The Community Support Program Member Center served 148 adults, providing services that promoted psychiatric stability, social connectedness, and independent living skills. Participants completed 3,768 visits and engaged in a variety of recovery-focused activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 76th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $302K · 26 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.