Saint Vincent De Paul Tucson
Legal name: Society of St Vincent De Paul Tucson
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860104418
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, United States
- Phone
- 520-628-7837
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,668,939
- Expenses
- $2,542,302
- Assets
- $3,151,411
- Liabilities
- $189,617
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Ames (District V President)
- Kay Lingeman (1st Vice-President)
- Maurice P Bois Jr (President)
People named in this filing
- Dan Davis (Store Committee Chair)
- Thomas Jefferson (Systemic Change Chair)
- Nancy Ames (District V President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A network of friends, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need; providing person-to-person support and tangible help to those who are in need. Our mission:** **A network of friends, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships _with_ and service _to_ people in need. The **values** behind the mission of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Tucson are very simple. We grow spiritually by offering person-to-person support and service to anyone who is in need. We are the helping hand that puts a meal on a family’s table and makes sure the lights and heat stay on. Our generosity means that men, women, and children are clothed, that they have a bed – or needed furniture – or just a place to sleep. We are reaching out to those...
What it reported doing in 2024
The Tucson Diocesan Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul supports the charitable work of thirty-four subsidiary conferences across Southern Arizona by providing training, financial support, consultation and other required support. Members of the Society conduct in person visits with those requesting assistance and provide temporary help in the form of food, furniture, clothing, rent and mortgage payments, medical bills, utility payments and other necessities to enable those we serve to recover from unforeseen difficulties and, once again, become productive, contributing members of our community. During the past fiscal year, our over 636 active and associate members assisted more than 77,148 individuals during our over 35,336 in person contacts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $85.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 35th 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.