St. Thomas Community Health Center
Legal name: St Thomas Community Health Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141958494
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- (504) 529-5558
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,654,031
- Expenses
- $28,942,837
- Assets
- $38,980,599
- Liabilities
- $14,303,578
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD T ERWIN MD (CEO)
- MARY M ABELL MD (ASSOCIATE CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- VIVIANA FALCO (CARDIOLOGIST): $460,795 total reported compensation
- MARY M ABELL MD (ASSOCIATE CEO): $411,952 total reported compensation
- DONALD T ERWIN MD (CEO): $405,215 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 culturally competent healthcare of the highest quality, regardless of the ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2025
St. Thomas community health center is a federally qualified health center (fqhc), community-based, non-profit, primary care health clinic, which provides pharmacy services and ambulatory health care services, including specialty care and diagnostic testing services. Serving both insured and uninsured patients, a large percentage of patients are the medically indigent, under-insured and uninsured of the greater new orleans and surrounding area(s). The clinic offers a full range of prevention, primary care and pharmacy services to pediatric and adult patients, as well as screening, surgical consultations, specialty consultations in ob/gyn, rheumatology, cardiology, optometry, nephrology, pulmonology, telehealth, neurology, and behavioral health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $176.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th 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: 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $461K · 31 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.