St Christopher's Inn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133668321
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Garrison, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8453351000
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,070,625
- Expenses
- $10,591,358
- Assets
- $7,831,028
- Liabilities
- $816,167
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FR DENNIS POLANCO SA (PRESIDENT (SEE SCHEDULE O))
- ALFONSO PISTONE (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ALFONSO PISTONE (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $219,848 total reported compensation
- JAMES MICKLER (CFO/TREASURER): $217,206 total reported compensation
- JANET KARPIZ (NURSE PRACTITIONER): $187,742 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. Christopher's inn, a ministry of the franciscan friars of the atonement, is a temporary homeless shelter dedicated to the rehabilitation of men in crisis whom we call "brothers christopher." our mission is to offer a continuum of quality health care services that facilitate physical, emotional, and spiritual healing by providing chemical dependency treatment, primary health care, and temporary housing.
What it reported doing in 2024
Homeless shelter programs - 820 residential services - st. Christopher's inn, inc. Operates a 142 bed 820 residential rehabiliation program licensed by the nys department of social services for men, 18 and over of all races, religions and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our nys oasas certificate for this program is xxx-xx-xxxx. The organization provides food, clothing and shelter for over 100 years. In 2024, the organization had 76,053 patient days.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 78% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 13th 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: 4.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $7.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $220K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $129K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.