ChooseWell Communities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472822055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5024036605
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $632,862
- Expenses
- $508,486
- Assets
- $327,727
- Liabilities
- $152,614
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leigh Ann Yost (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Barnett (Treasurer)
- Kim Mascaro (Chair)
- Jessica Whitish (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create a community that equips Louisvilles families in recovery with children under five to choose well for their futures.
What it reported doing in 2025
ChooseWell assisted 37 families in recovery to access supported, safe, & affordable housing, community resources for vocational and education achievement, and physical and behavioral health care. Thirty-seven families led by parents in early addiction recovery were anchored in safe, permanent housing. These families were embraced by a growing compassionate community of support as they navigate reunification with children lost during their active addiction, a return to school and/or the workforce; physical, emotional and spiritual healing; and reconstruction of social connections which further sustain the rebuilding of their lives and the lives of their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $437K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.