Carlson Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208984094
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,172
- Expenses
- $113,799
- Assets
- $97,953
- Liabilities
- $10,534
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sara Yoest (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sara Yoest (Executive Director)
- Cindy Kuhn (Vice Chair)
- Ruth Meberg (Chair)
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
Provide community education, service
What it reported doing in 2024
After school program, providing low or reduced cost after school activities and tutoring for neighborhood children
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 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.