St. David's Center
Legal name: St David's
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411429208
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9529390396
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,101,896
- Expenses
- $34,730,753
- Assets
- $28,564,592
- Liabilities
- $5,624,211
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE SJORDAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- VANESSA SLIVKEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-MINNETONKA)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE SJORDAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $290,904 total reported compensation
- MAUREEN WALSH (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT & STRATE): $183,598 total reported compensation
- ERICA TENNESSEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $179,307 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide comprehensive, whole-family support through evidence-based mental health, early childhood education, pediatric therapy, disability services, and home visiting, helping children and families reach their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2025
Children's mental health: a comprehensive continuum of mental health services for children, prenatal through adolescence, and their families, including assessment, immediate short-term support, evidence-based outpatient therapy, intensive therapeutic preschool classrooms, and case management. Services take place in our three centers in minneapolis and minnetonka, in more than 20 childcare centers and elementary schools, and in over 2,000 homes across the twin cities metro. 2025 accomplishment: reached 1,814 children, identifying root causes to emerging mental health needs and addressing those needs through interventions that result in improved outcomes for both parents and children. In 2025, 90% of the children in treatment for more than 90 days have reduced severity of symptoms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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
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: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th 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: 3.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $28M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $291K · 26 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.