St Mary's Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680172229
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5109239600
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,802,777
Expenses
$5,499,466
Assets
$22,107,108
Liabilities
$6,576,366

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHARON CORNU (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHARON CORNU (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $191,522 total reported compensation
  • QUINTINA BARKUS (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND DATA): $128,619 total reported compensation
  • KRISTINA WONG (DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION): $118,096 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve extremely low-income seniors and preschoolers in downtown and west oakland, California.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community outreach and services and advacocy: seniors come to the community center for a meal and a game of dominoes and find through participating in our social, recreational and advocacy activities they steadily improve their physical and mental health. Old friends who have known each other for decades reminisce. Others reduce loneliness by bonding with new friends. Most importantly, our unhoused seniors are welcomed in from the elements with a hot cup of coffee and a smile. We build strong relationships through our senior injury prevention program, which uses senior friendly practices to respond to individual needs and help reduce the effects of chronic poverty. Our staff work with seniors in english, spanish, cantonese, and tagalog to perform comprehensive assessments to imrpove capacity to perform daily living activities. We address barriers to healthy living including medical, food, transportation and financial issues as well as addiction, emotional and mental health challenges. The weconnect program provides access to free technology, internet, personalized lessons and online experiences we help seniors navigate the complexities of technology. The program's goal is to reduce isolation by safely connecting seniors to family, friends, and their st. Mary's center community, creating new channels of communication via zoom, texting and email.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 37.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.