St John's Community Services - Virginia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541944265
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
2022376500
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,315,147
Expenses
$7,512,175
Assets
$1,919,003
Liabilities
$1,090,005

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GORDON A THORNTON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • GEORGE LIACOPOULOS (DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • GORDON A THORNTON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $460,377 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE LIACOPOULOS (DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $309,696 total reported compensation
  • SHERRIE HARRISON-RUMBLE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE (UNTIL 7/28/25)): $250,635 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. John's community services - Virginia's mission is to advance inclusive communities where every person, regardless of circumstances, has the right and opportunity to live their best life.

What it reported doing in 2024

St. John's community services - Virginia (sjcs-va) is a subsidiary corporation of st. John's community services. The parent corporation is separately incorporated in the district of columbia and governed by a volunteer board of trustees. Each of the subsidiaries, including sjcs-va, is supported by local leadership, with administrative offices located in the state of Virginia where the subsidiary is incorporated. Sjcs-va contracts to use the copyrighted name "st. John's community services and acquires various administrative support services from the parent corporation. As a condition of the contract, the parent corporation establishes and monitors service quality standards and the subsidiary accepts these service standards as best practice. Continue on schedule o.-the administrative support services and technical assistance that the parent corporation provides include: accounting, cash management, strategic planning, communication and information dissemination, human resources, information technology, quality assurance, corporate compliance and program development. Each of these support services is individually tailored to meet the unique needs of this subsidiary corporation and its distinctive cultural as well as financial status. These services assist sjcs-va to meet the requirements of the contracts, laws and regulations under which it operates. Sjcs-va operates under its own operating policies and procedures and local leadership. Administrative support services are provided by the parent corporation, st. John's community services, to the subsidiary corporation, sjcs-va, at a low fixed rate consistent with national standards.-to further the agency's mission, the parent corporation sets quality standards consistent with the mission that must be met by the sjcs-va subsidiary in the provision of services. Those services must foster inclusion, self-direction, economic self-sufficiency, relationship development and choice. Meeting and maintaining these standards is a requirement for the continuation of the administrative support contract and use of the corporate name. The parent corporation also provides technical assistance and training for the sjcs-va subsidiary corporation to facilitate the attainment of these established standards. People receiving services through the st. John's subsidiary must meet local funding sources and the subsidiary's unique eligibility requirements for each specific service.services provided include:- employment services include job development, coaching, placement and on-going support in jobs working alongside employees without disabilities for which an individual is compensated at or above the minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by individuals without disabilities. - community engagement services include community exploration, skill development and volunteer opportunities. Community engagement supports foster the ability of participants to acquire, retain, or improve skills necessary to build positive social behavior, interpersonal competence, greater independence, employability and personal choice necessary to access typical activities and functions of community life such as those chosen by the general population. This service provides a wide variety of opportunities to facilitate and build relationships and natural supports in the community, while utilizing the community as a learning environment. Supports and services are conducted at naturally occurring times and in a variety of natural settings in which the participant actively interacts with persons without disabilities (other than those paid to support the individual). The activities enhance the participant's involvement with the community and facilitate the development of natural supports. Supports and activities are tailored to the participant's person-centered plan and individual choice. - community living services enable adults with disabilit

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $460K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.