Casa Sparrow
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933345155
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Frankfort, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6189223878
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,340
- Expenses
- $6,773
- Assets
- $22,344
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLORIA E WADE (PRESIDENT)
- LARRY WADE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- GLORIA E WADE (PRESIDENT)
- SARA FLEMING (TREASURER)
- GLORIA CRAVENS (SECRETARY)
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
Providing Foster Children with a home and placement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advertising for donations - still trying to get funding to buy housing
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.6%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 26.8%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.3; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.6% of revenue deployed · 26.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.