Saint Francis Childrens Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 396092761
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4143510450
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Brain Disorders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,306,452
- Expenses
- $5,416,125
- Assets
- $13,949,854
- Liabilities
- $639,793
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW WUEST (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN HALPIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PATTY ROBERTS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA FELIX (EXECUTIVE DIR.): $151,361 total reported compensation
- DOLORES BUSCHKE (DIRECTOR): $105,130 total reported compensation
- KRISTEN STIEGER (DIRECTOR): $92,219 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to serve and educate children with special needs in inclusive environments enabling them to reach their greatest potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our community-based early intervention/birth to three program, provided on behalf of milwaukee county, served 369 children with developmental delays in 2024. Based on the number of families on title 19, approximately 44% of the children served in the program were living in homes at or below the poverty level. Our team provided excellent service and support to families, ensuring not only appropriate program services but also ensuring that families were connected to community resources that enriched the whole family. Included in these resources is our own family activity center, a program that provides mostly no-fee activities for the whole family in order to help families build a network of support to strengthen their networks and to eliminate the isolation that is sometimes experienced by families with children with special needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $290K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.