Alliance of Local Service Organizations
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364207887
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7732355705
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,898,868
- Expenses
- $13,823,286
- Assets
- $9,385,462
- Liabilities
- $7,898,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tina Lewis (President)
- Lori Crowder (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lori Crowder (Executive Director): $227,313 total reported compensation
- Silvia M Villeda Herrera (Senior Finance Director): $192,810 total reported compensation
- Cristina Damiani (Director of Safe Homes): $186,994 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ALSO works in partnership with people living in the risk of violence to promote safer streets and homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Family Violence Prevention Programs (Safe Homes) The nationally assisted Family Violence Prevention Program is comprised of initiatives the STOP Technical Assistance to Administrators Resource Project (STAAR), and the Underserved Technical Assistance Project. STAAR is focused on developing and strengthening criminal justice and community based responses to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The Underserved Technical Assistance Project is focused on addressing the needs of victims of gender-based violence from underserved communities, by providing training and technical assistance to those who serve them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,412.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 16th 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: 97.8%; rating input score 98; 38th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $227K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $194K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.