Priests of the Sacred Heart
Legal name: Sacred Heart at Monastery Lake Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270771531
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Franklin, WI, USA
- Phone
- 1-800-448-7674
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,480,207
- Expenses
- $2,831,879
- Assets
- $9,719,671
- Liabilities
- $2,303,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FR VIEN NGUYEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FR VIEN NGUYEN (PRESIDENT)
- BR DUANE LEMKE SCJ (VICE PRESIDE)
- DN DAVID NAGEL SCJ (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Established in 1878 by the Venerable Leo John Dehon, Priests of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic religious congregation committed to continuing Christ’s work of rebuilding our world into God’s kingdom of justice and love. support for retired priests Support the work of the Priests of the Sacred Heart Across the globe, people who are less fortunate benefit from our organization’s social action and outreach. With your continued support, our priests and seminarians are able to share the joy of Christ’s divine love, continue to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart and offer comfort to those who rely on our ministries. Support the work of the Priests of the Sacred Heart Across the globe, people who are less fortunate benefit from our organization’s social action and outreach. With your continued support, our priests and seminarians are able to share the joy of Christ’s divine love...
What it reported doing in 2025
Sacred heart at monastery lake is a residence for retired and current members of the priests of the sacred heart, a roman catholic religious order. There are also senior residential units for members of the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
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 and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.43; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.