Inexcelsis Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844181227
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148877156
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $303,299
- Expenses
- $316,993
- Assets
- $75,606
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Severin Pelekara (Executive Director)
- Jack Kennedy (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Severin Pelekara (Executive Director): $12,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
InExcelsis is a faith-based nonprofit in St. Louis, Missouri that exists to retrieve the dignity of individuals, families, veterans, and displaced youth experiencing homelessness, ignite their reintegration into community, and walk alongside them as they achieve lasting stability. Rooted in the conviction that true transformation begins with connection, we meet our neighbors in St. Louis where they are. In shelters, at encampments, on the streets, and every at the inExcelsis Outreach Center. Guided by Patient Compassion, Intentional Respect, and Unconditional Love and grounded in the conviction that true transformation begins with connection. We deliver four integrated programs that carry our neighbors from first contact through permanent housing and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
Dignity on Wheels (DoW)Dignity on Wheels is inExcelsis's mobile hygiene program, delivering a fully equipped four-stall shower trailer to partner sites across the St. Louis region from March through mid-November. In 2025, the program logged 616 check-ins from 298 unique individuals across nine active host sites including MoNetwork, the Cass Avenue and 10th Street pallet-shelter village, Wellston Loop, the Shaw neighborhood, and the St. Louis County Library system. Beyond hygiene access, DoW functions as an outreach anchor: the predictable weekly presence at each site creates a trusted relational touchpoint that has drawn participants into inExcelsis's other programs and into external housing and health services. In May 2025, the program was activated outside its standard service calendar to provide emergency hygiene response showers, towels, and hygiene kits to residents of The Ville displaced by the tornado that struck St. Louis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $255K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.