The Monastery of San Juan Diego Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843157274
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Taos, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5757518531
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,179
- Expenses
- $95,619
- Assets
- $13,850
- Liabilities
- $2,137
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- FR JOHN-PAUL MICHAEL MARIO OSB (PRES, DIRECT)
- MATT WOESSNER (DIRECTOR)
- JULIA ARMSTRONG (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide outreach to the less fortunate and assist and equip those traning to become a monk. We are a community of benedictine monks living in the heart of downtown taos, New Mexico, serving the local area in evangelizing, while balancing our life of prayer and work (known in latin as ("ora et labora") the monks and oblates work with local non-profit organizations to provide assistance with their needs and services.
What it reported doing in 2024
For the monk the first work is that of prayer to pray the sacred liturgy as fully and as efficaciously as he is able, day in day out, for the salvation of his own soul and for the good of the church and the world, from early morning until night. That may sound daunting, but in fact it is the most natural and life-giving thing in the world for one with a monastic vocation. Rising at an early hour to worship god is natural for a monk. We engage in lectio divina that divine reading in which we listen to, digest and contemplate the voice of god in the words of his inspired and privileged friends sustains us. And in this space and silence as the night ends and the dawn breaks, as the world busies itself for another day, we are able to pray for all those who seek our prayers, whose vocations are elsewhere, who need our intercession to sustain their good and rightful activities in the world. This is a most beautiful element and apostolate of monastic life. The brethren work at their studies at whatever level, usually in the mornings. We encourage higher studies where appropriate of course, but ones first task when entering a monastery is to become a monkonce that is the case all that we do, from doctorates to dishes, must be in harmony with the new man, clothed in the habit of saint benedict. Work away from the monastery can only be justified in that context for duly proportionate reasons. Each new member of our monastic family brings with him gifts and talents and opens himself to the opportunity of developing more as a monk which augment what, as a monastery, we can do for the glory of almighty god. So long as that activity does not eclipse, but arises from, what we are called to be monks seeking ever to be more faithful to the rule of st benedict in our day we can do very much indeed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.