St. Louis Arc
Legal name: St Louis Arc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430718811
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri, US
- Phone
- 314-569-2211
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,347,009
- Expenses
- $41,472,717
- Assets
- $52,443,017
- Liabilities
- $6,544,717
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK KEELEY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK KEELEY (CEO): $249,358 total reported compensation
- JOHN TAYLOR (VP ADVANCEMENT): $246,651 total reported compensation
- KATHY TISONE (CFO): $219,860 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The St. Louis Arc supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to live, work, and fully participate in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Supported employment and training provides assessment, career development and on-the-job support that helps people find and maintain paid employment and helps teens with developmental disabilities to get job experience prior to high school graduation. 636 people were served during the year.leisure services provide a wide variety of recreational opportunities to children and adults, including sports, dances, book and walking clubs, arts, cooking classes, camping and social activities throughout the year. Educational and instructional programs are designed to enhance quality of life, develop community, access skills, and increase independence. Early intervention and inclusive children's services provide developmental, physical, occupational, and speech/language therapies to children in their homes, schools and at hundreds of community sites. Capable kids and families program offers a lending library of therapeutic equipment and developmental toys for children and support and resources for parents. Parents learning together teaches parenting skills to parents who have developmental disabilities; and prevention activities are aimed at reducing the incidence of developmental disability caused by fetal alcohol syndrome.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 43rd 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; 66th 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: 10.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $249K · 38 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.