Child Restoration Outreach Support Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261589975
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2246162767
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,215
- Expenses
- $179,131
- Assets
- $51,270
- Liabilities
- $5,279
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALBERT RILEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AMY PETERSEN (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON NAGY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALBERT RILEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AMY PETERSEN (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON NAGY (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Croso is dedicated to making possible the transformation of ugandan communities by providing post-secondary education scholarships to former street children in uganda.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholar support - croso provides comprehensive scholarships for post-secondary education expenses for students attending universities, colleges, and technical schools in uganda. Support includes tuition, books, room & board, and supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 74% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 45.3%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -103.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 45.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.