St Irenaeus Institute for Catholic Thought Ltd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933129006
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Roman Catholic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,373
- Expenses
- $44,309
- Assets
- $38,540
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aaron Ebert (President & Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Aaron Ebert (President & Treasurer)
- Joshua Hren (Scholar-in-Residence)
- James C Dunlop (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The St. Irenaeus Institute for Catholic Thought exists to make the Catholic intellectual tradition especially its patristic expression a vital part of the Church and academy in the greater Milwaukee area. To accomplish this purpose the Institute hosts reading groups seminars lectures and other forums for Catholic intellectual formation. It also seeks to provide further opportunities for intellectual friendship and community among students scholars priests and lay Christians throughout and beyond the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
What it reported doing in 2025
Catholic Studies at UW-Milwaukee: Non-credit short-course at UW-Milwaukee--enrolled 20 students and non-students; met seven times over fall; Public lecture at UW-Milwaukee--late winter--c. 90 attendees;
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 50.7%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 50.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.