Center for Success for High Need Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853789645
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lk Barrington, IL, USA
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,484
- Expenses
- $99,383
- Assets
- $935
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Nelson (Vice President)
- Janis Fitzsimmons (President and CEO)
People named in this filing
- Teri Marx (Director)
- Rebecca Nelson (Vice President)
- Marian Lisa Pettaway (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
MISSION: The Center for Success puts collaborating institutions and partnering education stakeholders at the cutting edge of school reform by convening education partners to share best practices to recruit prepare and sustain talented and diverse teachers and leaders to serve low-income and marginalized students and high need schools as well as to provide opportunities and access to immersive engaging academic cultural and enrichment college bound activities and experiences that ensure the students in high need schools will succeed in post-secondary education. VISION: To prepare highest quality teachers for high need schools and provide an array of educational and social supports for students in these schools by developing and sustaining immersion experiences in education where college students aspiring to be teachers have real world experience in high need communities while simultaneously serving PK-12 students who aspire to be college bound.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project LEAD Leaders in Education Advocating for Diversity Equity and Inclusion is a collaborative endeavor that brings faculty and diverse students from multiple campuses together to build a structure and toolbox to: Identify and explore the demographics of the teacher and student pipeline and collaborate to improve the numbers alignment so that more students across Illinois experience a diverse teacher and teachers who are allies supporting diversity equity and inclusion; Understand and celebrate the value of a diverse pool of teacher candidates to all students teachers schools and districts; Celebrate the profession of teaching & inspire others to celebrate and elevate teaching; Increase and support the number of talented and diverse candidates of color who become teachers and the significant contributions they make to the profession; Network & collaborate with approx 400 faculty and students across each campus and from campus to campus and along with education stakeholders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, 44% for grants, and 4% for member benefits.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
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: -17.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th 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: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -41% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.