Chicago House & Social Service Agency

What it reported doing in 2024

Prevention - h.o.p.e. (healthy, outreach, prevention and education). Historically, AIDS prevention focused on those who were HIV negative, helpting them to not become positive. Since 2002, chicago house pioneered the prevention with positives initiative with one underlying principle: every new infection is contracted from someone who is already HIV impacted. If "safe" practices can be encouraged among those who are HIV positive, it can help stem the tide of AIDS whole keeing those already impacted from contracting a drug resistant strain of HIV. The h.o.p.e. Department is an HIV prevention program involving three core services: HIV testing and counseling, care coordination for persons living with HIV and care navigation for individuals at high risk for HIV. HIV testing and counseling is provided for persons living with HIV who are having difficulty maintaining safer sex or needle sharing behaviors. Factors that may impact a client's ability to maintain safer behaviors include: mental illness, homelessness or risk of homelessness, domestic violence, and substance abuse. The HIV prevention counselor works one-on-one with clients to assist them with achieving risk reduction goals. HIV rapid testing is also provided. This program seeks to help identify some of the estimated 25% of individuals in the united states with HIV who are unaware of their HIV status. Care coordination chicago house addresses the needs of out-of-care people living with HIV/AIDS and offer retention-in-care activities. Connect to care provides client level outreach, linkage, and education activities to help individuals with diagnosed HIV/AIDS connect or reconnect to continuous HIV medical care and other essential services. The program recruits case managed clients to conduct outreach to out-of-care people living with HIV in their social networks and facilitates efforts to(re)connect them to HIV care services. In addition, the program provides newly connected clients educational and peer-based services and addresses clients' individual-level barriers, such as fear, stigma, or lack of knowledge about treatment in order to support care retention.prep navigation chicago house addresses the needs of high risk negatives by creating a client centered approach to care that mirrors our care coordination model. Regardless if a client is HIV positive or at high-risk for contracting HIV they are in need of the same type of services. Because prep requires adherence, the care navigation program gives navigators the opportunity to work with clients over an extended period of time, allowing them to develop a deeper relationship with the client and a more comprehensive negative care care plan, similar to what is done with HIV positive clients. The navigator ensures that they schedule regular follow-up meetings with the client to continue to test the client for HIV, to ensure the referral is continuing to serve the client, and to address any other needs that may arise as the client becomes more comfortable with the navigator.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: $64.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 3.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings