St Clair Butterfly Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208917561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Traverse City, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2483304164
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,120
- Expenses
- $96,106
- Assets
- $30,361
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHIP ST CLAIR (CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
- RUTH FRUSHOUR (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHIP ST CLAIR (CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
- LISA ST CLAIR (CO-FOUNDER, SECRETARY & TR)
- RUTH FRUSHOUR (VICE 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
St.clair butterfly foundation (scbf) utilizes a three-part strategy to heal tramuma with measurable and lasting results. Recognizing that trauma deeply affects physical, mental, and genetic health, scbf anchors its mission in both expert clinical practice and compassionate long-term community impact. Scbf doesn't just navigate through the aftermath of trauma but actively works to reshape the physiological and emotional outcomes impacted by it, ensuring children, families, and communities can robustly rise above the profound impacts of adverse childhood experiences (aces).
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation centers its work around three pivotal pillars:1) expressive arts programming: providing traumatized youth with expressive, creative outlets to navigate and process their trauma constructively through evidence-based arts programming.2) trauma-informed training: elevating communities by empowering educators and professionals working with traumatized youth with the knowledge, understanding, and best practices for fostering healthy socio-emotional development3) trauma certification: bridging the quality chasm by establishing a rigorous, standardized annual certification process for institutions engaged in trauma-related work, marking a global first in establishing a consistent, quality benchmark.the foundation also receives various in-kind professional services. The total estimated value of services received is $623,100
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.