Harris House Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431235232
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- St Charles, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3146314299
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,734,402
- Expenses
- $10,907,134
- Assets
- $25,568,827
- Liabilities
- $10,487,125
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEITH SCHNEIDER (BOARD VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JOHN MCLELLAN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN MCLELLAN (CEO): $387,934 total reported compensation
- CARRIE MINTZ (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $279,644 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDER NOEL (COO): $257,046 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Harris house foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is to help alcoholic and chemically-dependent persons achieve sobriety and become useful, healthy and productive individuals; implicit in our mission is providing underserved people the opportunity to experience the miracle of their own recovery regardless of race, creed, or economic status.
What it reported doing in 2025
Harris house provides men and women with comprehensive substance abuse treatment services. Clinical treatment services address both substance dependency and the common co-occuring psychiatric conditions seen in harris house clients. Harris house also provides information, educational and crisis interventional support services for indirect clients. Harris house staff provides a caring, compassionate and healing environment for clients. Harris house counselors are masters-level state licensed msw, lcsw and lpc counselors with high proficiencies in nationally recognized best practice substance abuse and mental health treatment interventions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th 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: 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: 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: 30.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.34; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $388K · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.