Citizens Helping Through Outreach Services Empower

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932318198
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Anniston, AL, USA
Phone
2564545498
Rating
53
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,900
Expenses
$14,900
Assets
$500
Liabilities
$500

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Safira English-Sims (Chief Executive Officer and President)
  • ShaKearra Spinks (Chief Operating Officer and Vice President)
  • Ashley Lucas (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Safira English-Sims (Chief Executive Officer and President)
  • Tiffani Franks Bagley (Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer)
  • ShaKearra Spinks (Chief Operating Officer and 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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

CHOSEN's mission is to assist communities through community outreach programs, volunteers services, empowerment movements, and create business networks by aiding in the expansion of the local area, improving the learning environments in local area schools, and promoting opportunities to develop employment growth within the local area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Motivation Mondays and Work It Out Wednesdays: This program is a mentorship program focused on students in the local area. On Mondays, according to an agreement with the local school's board of education, the organization goes to the school and provides motivational speaking, activities for the students, healthy snacks, rewards for students that are on track with their education, and encouragement to those students that have fallen off track. On Wednesdays, the organization returns back to the school to work with those students that are off track or just need more support. They receive one hour of group tutoring and an opportunity to earn their reward from Monday's motivational event. The elementary school students are gathered for inspirational readings on Mondays, as well. The organization hosts Motivational Mondays and Work It Out Wednesdays once or twice a month, according to the schools' testing schedule.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 30
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 59.5%; rating input score 59
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th 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: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -71.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -189.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 59.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.