Chicago Community and Workers Rightsnfp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800442573
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7736533664
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employee & Workers Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,124,874
Expenses
$682,371
Assets
$1,109,056
Liabilities
$22,808

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAMASO RAMIREZ (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Martin Unzueta (Executive Dir.): $83,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

An Organization led by workers for workers, regardless of immigration status, dedicated to educating, building leadership, and gathering resources to develop organizing tools and collective strategies of resistance against labor rights abuses toward just living conditions for our families.

What it reported doing in 2024

In the area of Education and Empowerment, the Organization carries out Community Defenders trainings, which are workshops that teach the tools available for workers to fight for their rights. It employs the workers' own experiences to learn from each other how to organize more effectively in their workplaces. Some of these workers can lend time and support to continue the Organization's work. Community Defenders educate themselves in labor rights and educate other workers, sharing experiences and knowledge, to fight for their rights and for jobs that pay living wages with better benefits that respect their health and humanity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $72.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 39.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $528K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.