SVdP Indy
Legal name: Society of St Vincent De Paul Archdiocesan Council of Indianapolis Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371507632
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3179245769
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,863,213
- Expenses
- $7,828,118
- Assets
- $8,544,840
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER ZUBLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PAUL AINSLIE (PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT ALBER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAT JERRELL (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JENI CHRISTOFFERSEN (EAST DISTRICT PRESIDENT)
- LARRY DOUGHERTY (NORTH DISTRICT PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER ZUBLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $98,633 total reported compensation
- DEINDA DELLACCA (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $87,675 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
St. Vincent de Paul-Indianapolis (SVdP Indy) serves the most vulnerable in our community by providing basic human needs and supporting a pathway out of poverty through love, support, and skills training. Our first Mission 27 thrift store opens. Named in memory of St. Vincent de Paul’s feast day on September 27, proceeds provide more nutritional food offerings at the food pantry, and help support our Changing Lives Forever program. 2019 2019. We expand the Blue Bin program to support the inventory needs of Mission 27, which in turn, generates revenue to support special works. 2020 2020. Wherever we are, we strive to meet the immediate basic physical needs of the most vulnerable in our communities. As our relationships with our neighbors deepen, we offer education and support to help foster systemic change and break the cycle of poverty. Whether we’re meeting day-to-day needs or...
What it reported doing in 2024
Love your neighbor center and homeless programs: almost $500,000 in goods and services are distributed to unsheltered individuals each year. These programs also include over 100 graduates of our changing lives forever program and more than 20 residents of our love your neighbor center, a transitional housing program with a capacity of 13 full-time residents at a time receiving counseling, job training, and life skills training in order to lift themselves out of poverty for good. The emphasis is on self-empowerment and support, focusing on the dignity of each individual.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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
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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 39th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -14.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.