West Side Catholic Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341244687
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- (216) 631-4741
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,190,217
- Expenses
- $4,704,337
- Assets
- $7,778,850
- Liabilities
- $227,637
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MANNING JOE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TUFTS SHARON (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL BERNOT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL BERNOT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $141,175 total reported compensation
- JUDY KERN (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $102,872 total reported compensation
- NINA RODGERS (CFO): $91,408 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grounded in faith, hope, love and respect for those we serve, the West Side Catholic Center assists all who come in need of food, clothing, shelter, advocacy and a path to self-sufficiency. The West Side Catholic Center provides a holistic network of services that support individuals and families facing hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and crisis. Rooted in dignity, compassion, and trauma-informed care, our programs meet immediate needs while helping people build pathways toward stability and long-term self-sufficiency. Whether someone needs a hot meal, safe housing, job training, clothing, or family support, WSCC is here with open doors and a welcoming heart. MEALS Clothing+.
What it reported doing in 2024
Moriah house- family shelter - provides a full range of transitional services that assist residents in moving from homelessness to stable housing. Intreim housing provides a safe place to live, meals and all other basic necessities. Housing navigation services enable each resident to work directly with skilled staff to develop their individualized plan for permanent housing, stable income, self-sufficiency, and education/training. In 2024, 9,508 nights of lodging and 28,524 meals were provided to 69 families along with transitional services and referrals to provide more long-term solutions.
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 82% 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.