Chicago Street Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832938567
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6096517830
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,600
- Expenses
- $38,882
- Assets
- $79,785
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Patterson (President)
- Alexa Canning (President)
People named in this filing
- Anna Patterson (President)
- Alexa Canning (President)
- Claire King (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chicago Street Medicine improves the health and well-being of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Chicago by delivering medical care and resources directly where people are, in partnership with local street medicine chapters and community organizations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Chicago Street Medicine provides direct street medicine services and resources to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Chicago by partnering with medical student-led volunteer chapters and community organizations to deliver care where people are. In 2025, CSM supported 385 total runs (42 indoor and 343 street-site runs) and recorded 4,143 total encounters (1,921 clinical and 2,222 non-clinical). CSM distributed 538 resources, including 130 Narcan kits and 408 CTA bus passes, and expanded trainee-led street medicine in Chicago by welcoming a new chapter at Rosalind Franklin University and strengthening partnerships that support continuity of care, harm reduction, and patient access to services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.3%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 57
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: 39.8%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 66; 66th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.3% of revenue deployed · 57.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.