Starc of Louisiana Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 720727074
IRS 990 coverage: 2019–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Slidell, LA, USA
Phone: 9856410197
Rating: 74
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Affiliation: Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $9,893,230
Expenses: $9,609,878
Assets: $13,251,423
Liabilities: $4,027,738

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

MARK BAHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
KAY TAYLOR (PAST PRESIDENT)
Chris Kaufmann (President)
Donna Bach (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

MARK BAHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $190,519 total reported compensation
SUZANNE H BOURGEOIS (DIR. OF OPERATONS): $127,252 total reported compensation
SUSAN D BAHAM (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER): $123,986 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Stark's mission is to provide a lifetime of services, training, advocacy, resources, and conmmunity connections for individuals with intellectual and/or developmentsal disabilities to help them reash their potential as independent, contributing members of their communities in st. Tammany parish and surrounding parishes.

What it reported doing in 2024

Infant habilitation services - provides services to families with infants and toddlers from birth to 36 months of age who have a medical condition likely to result in a cognitive, motor, vision, hearing, communication, social-emotional, and/or adaptive developmental delay(s), or who have already been diagnosed with one or more developmental delays. Early steps services are designed to improve a family's capacity to enhance a child's development. These services are provided in the child's natural environment, such as the child's home, childcare, or any other community setting typical for children from birth to 36 months of age.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 70% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 77
Transparency & Controls: 70
Accountability: 77
Sustainability: 45
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
Fundraising efficiency: $27.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $7.7M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $191K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $170K reported
Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
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.

Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.