Support For Catholic Schools, Inc.

Legal name: Support for Catholic Schools Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812415790
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Wichita, KS, United States
Phone
316-269-3917
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,764,439
Expenses
$3,919,529
Assets
$5,589,540
Liabilities
$129,544

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ryan Walker (Board Member/President)
  • Shelley Hunt (Board Member/Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Rev Devin Burns (Board Member/Secretary)
  • Ryan Walker (Board Member/President)
  • Sandy Elliott (Board Member/Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Gifts made through the Designated School Program _**do not**_ receive a 75% Kansas State income tax credit. Note: Gifts to the Tax Credit Program are eligible for most employer matching programs, but funds to the Tax Credit Program cannot be designated to a particular school. Tax Credit Program funds are given to support low-income students throughout the diocese. **Learn more about the Tax Credit Program today! All gifts and matching gifts will be distributed at the end of each quarter to the specified school.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization made two distributions of educational scholarships to a total of 44 schools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: $100.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 85.1%; rating input score 85; 23rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 35 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 42 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.