Chicago Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363905333
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7735457288
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $802,389
- Expenses
- $632,188
- Assets
- $1,729,366
- Liabilities
- $32,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- CLARIBEL ESTRELLA (DIRECTOR)
- DEACON GREGORY SHUMPERT (DIRECTOR)
- GLORIA CENTENO (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The coalition works to ensure that all chicago residents, especially the low-income and underinsured, have access to adequate and affordable community mental health services.
What it reported doing in 2024
The expanded mental health services programs (emhsp) model is a community-centered model of mental healthcare developed by the coalition. Emhsps gives residents the authority to fund and oversee local mental health services. Emhsps requires communities to place a referendum on the ballot asking residents if they will raise their property taxes to restore local mental health services. The coalition organizes community members to garner support to create the program, conduct information campaigns, identify unmet mental health needs, create community networks to expand access to the new centers, and develop the program after the vote. This results in new mental health centers that are initiated, funded, and approved by the community, a unique way to create sustainable services that are responsive to local needs.the coalition also empowers mental health consumers to push for their own mental health services through the development of a consumer-led group called the north river consumer council. The council is led by mental health consumers who work to advocate for better care and increased services for clients at the city of chicago's existing mental health centers. Over the last 15 years, the north river consumer council has worked to ensure that the city-run north river mental health center remains open and fully-funded.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.74; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $597K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: 3 of 7 not reported.