Our Sorrowful Mothers Ministry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770612444
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vandalia, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6182928039
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $753,198
- Expenses
- $618,546
- Assets
- $1,566,433
- Liabilities
- $12,555
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debbie Pryor (President, Director/Trustee, Member)
- Vanessa Keck (Vice President, Treasurer, Director/Trustee, Member)
People named in this filing
- Debbie Pryor (President, Director/Trustee, Member)
- Vanessa Keck (Vice President, Treasurer, Director/Trustee, Member)
- Father Chad Ripperger (Director/Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
OSMM's annual weekend conference and weekend retreats include presentations by priests and speakers, daily Mass, Confession, Holy Rosary, Prayer Teams and time for individual prayer and meditation. Our Prayer Teams pray with and for people for their personal intentions. Our aim is to provide a place of love and mercy to all who come here and to encourage reconciliation and unity for their lives and with God.
What it reported doing in 2024
OSMM RETREATS: * Small intimate retreats where you can interact directly with speakers and OSMM community members; * Holy Mass, Confession, Adoration; * Prayer Teams to pray with you for your intentions; * Spiritual Mentoring available on selected retreats; * Holy Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Guided Meditations; * Our retreats end with a prayer/healing service where each person is prayed with individually; and * We provide solid Catholic teaching always remaining within the teachings of the Magisterium and the Holy Father. All our retreats, no matter what the topic, have the purpose of providing healing and reconciliation first with God and then with ourselves and others. Healing begins with understanding God's plan for our own journey and salvation. We provide the sacraments of Eucharist and Confession and meditative opportunities to further your personal relationship with Christ. The registration fee is $45 for a 3-day retreat (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Please see the OSMM website at osmm.org for more information. The expense figure shown in this line of activity is an estimate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $606K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.