Sacred Heart Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460417196
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eagle Butte, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6059646062
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,633,979
- Expenses
- $4,220,568
- Assets
- $5,650,156
- Liabilities
- $1,276,505
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FATHER GREG SCHILL (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER LONG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS HEDRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TRAVIS HEDRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $80,271 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The sacred heart center's mission is to eradicate violence and oppressive practices, supporting and empowering individuals, families and communities to promote justice, social change and non-violence. The organization operates a women's shelter, adolescent group home, and various other community service activities and programs for people located on or near the cheyenne river sioux reservation
What it reported doing in 2024
The sacred heart center family violence shelter offers a culturally grounded, trauma-informed continuum of care for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse within the cheyenne river sioux tribe community and surrounding areas. Core services are survivor-centered and designed to promote safety, empowerment, and long-term stability by including emergency shelter, crisis intervention, and individualized advocacy. Advocates provide confidential support, assist with danger assessments, safety planning, and navigation of tribal and state legal systems, including protection orders, custody filings, and court accompaniment. Medical advocacy is available for hospital, clinic, and sane exam visits. Staff also support access to victim compensation, transportation, healthcare, employment, childcare, and housing resources. Counseling and support groups help survivors process trauma and rebuild safety. All services are culturally responsive, emphasizing respect, community, and healing. Smudging is offered in the shelter, and clients are connected to tribal elders and cultural mentors for additional traditional healing. A 24-hour crisis line provides immediate, confidential support, while community education promotes healthy relationships, consent awareness, and bystander intervention. In fy 20242025, the sacred heart center served 250 clients through emergency shelter services, totaling 2,124 shelter service days, and provided advocacy and outreach to 109 non-shelter clients. These individuals included survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse, as well as their children and family members impacted by violence. Through advocacy, shelter, and culturally guided healing, the program continues to strengthen safety, resilience, and hope within the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $299K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.