The House of Mary Corp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871455015
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
East Saint Louis, IL, USA
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$202,813
Expenses
$135,568
Assets
$16,600
Liabilities
$54,072

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frederick Patterson (President)
  • Anttwain Dobbins (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Frederick Patterson (President)
  • Anttwain Dobbins (Vice President)
  • Robbin Nichols (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The House of Mary Corporation (THOM) provides transitional and supportive housing for justice-involved women reentering to the community. Our mission is to promote stability reduce recidivism and empower women through a trauma-informed, housing-first model. THOM offers safe housing combined wraparound services, including case management, mental health counseling, substance use recovery support, life skill training, job readiness, and transportation (Schedule O)

What it reported doing in 2025

Transitional Supportive Housing for Justice-Involved Women - THOM provided transitional supportive housing and comprehensive reentry services to 50 justice-involved women in 2025. The program offers a structured, safe, and stable residential environment for up to 120 days, utilizing a housing-first trauma-informed care model designed to reduce recidivism and promote long-term self-sufficiency. Participants received individualized case management services, including assessment, service planning, and ongoing progress monitoring. THOM provided group and individual counseling to address trauma, mental health needs, and substance use recovery. Residents also participated in life skills training, including financial literacy, budgeting, communication, conflict resolution, and independent living preparation. The program emphasized economic stability and workforce reintegration, offering job readiness training, resume development, interview preparation, and direct employment placement through partnerships with local employers. Transportation assistance was provided to ensure access to employment, medical care, court obligations, and other essential services. Additional support included the provision of basic needs such as food, hygiene items, bedding, and household supplies upon entry. THOM maintained a structured and supervised living environment with 24/7 staff presence to ensure safety, accountability and program compliance. As a result of these services, participants demonstrated improved housing stability, increased employment engagement, enhanced life skills and reduced risk of recidivism. (See Schedule O)

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 75% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 24
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 33.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.26; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.