Santa Maria Community Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
310537141
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Phone
5135572730
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,028,116
Expenses
$4,509,068
Assets
$10,949,502
Liabilities
$236,051

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HA MUSSER JR (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • HA MUSSER JR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $180,182 total reported compensation
  • SHARI PATRICK (CFO): $125,172 total reported compensation
  • NUNE SARGSYAN (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $107,020 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Santa maria is a catalyst and advocate for greater price hill families to attain their education, financial, and health goals.

What it reported doing in 2024

Santa maria's supportive services programming has three basic components focusing on mitigating social determinants of health and promoting family stability: wellness, immigrant outreach, and stable families. The wellness component ensures that the underserved increase their use of community resources. This work is accomplished through community in-kind services with agency partners, health workshops, and community health fairs. Additionally, wellness partners with local organizations to provide emergency prescription assistance, free eye exams/glasses, hearing exams, HIV/AIDS testing and education, and health insurance enrollment. Of particular note, this program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation services to the hispanic/latino and african communities. The immigrant outreach component provides group programming and resources for the immigrant communities of the greater cincinnati area including english as a second language (esl) classes. Services are offered free of charge at a variety of community locations as well as virtually. Wellness & immigrant outreach served more than 700 adults and children in 2024. Stable families, which served 162 families in 2024, follows a national best practice model through the siemer family foundation and offers direct support to families with school-age children (including preschool) to help stabilize their housing in order to prevent avoidable moves and the children's schooling being disrupted. All three components provide support, coaching, standardized screenings, advocacy, and education to parents, caregivers, and their children.

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 90% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.5%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 9 of 9 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: 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: 10.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.5% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $180K · 29 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $275K reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.