AROSE Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834280460
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7734955262
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,930
- Expenses
- $76,422
- Assets
- $21,767
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIELLE BRYSON (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- BRIELLE BRYSON (President & CEO)
- ARLESIA TAYLOR (Director)
- Phillippa Paisley (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AROSE's mission is to bridge the opportunity gap for underserved Black and Brown youth in trauma-prone communities through post-secondary scholarships, support services, and community outreach initiatives. AROSE Scholars is our signature program. AROSE Scholars is a scholarship and student success program for underserved Black and Brown high school graduates located across Chicago and Flint. Our program was created to provide financial, social, and emotional support to students throughout their post-secondary years. AROSE Scholars become a part of a community of like-minded, resilient students who are committed to tenaciously continuing their education and becoming the next generation of leaders. Our students are paired with a success coach committed to helping students navigate through their real-time school experiences and utilize action planning to ensure they achieve their academic goals. We help our students develop and grow through tailored leadership and personal development wor
What it reported doing in 2025
This year, AROSE served over 600 youth across IL, welcomed 3 new scholars to our existing cohort of 9, awarded $40,000 in scholarship funds, hosted our 2nd annual Trunk Party and partnered with Infinite Scholars on the Money Talks experience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.