Seafarers' House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650123576
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9547341580
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,148,980
- Expenses
- $1,131,345
- Assets
- $4,767,633
- Liabilities
- $449,669
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLIFFORD L BERRY II (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER STEWART (EXECUTIVE DI): $121,288 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To offer refuge, resources, renewal and respect to the maritime community through multi-faith service.
What it reported doing in 2024
Each year, our center hosts visits from nearly 150,000 crew and port community members. Our programs/services included but were not limited to: - pastoral and practical ship visits: 759 ships; 8,300 crew - pastoral care issues: 1,004 - volunteer hours: 2,202 - delivered 2,059 shoebox christmas gifts to visiting crew in 128 ships. - visit crew of as many as 60 ships per month to counsel, welcome crew, fulfill crew requests, spread cheer, deliver humanitarian bags full of toiletries and needed items, baked goods, food, holiday items, puzzles and games, winter hats and jackets, and more. - provided hotspots 66 times for crew members who could not get off ship. - work with 9 mariner friendly congregations who have adopted the crew of cyclical ships. Visited 56 times with treats, gifts and warm smiles and friendships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and program spending has grown recently. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.3%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.21; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.3% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $687K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.