Clearbrook
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362420176
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arlington Heights, IL, US
- Phone
- 847.870.7711
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,799,090
- Expenses
- $76,607,189
- Assets
- $58,429,220
- Liabilities
- $15,327,645
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
43 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA J SMART (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA J SMART (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $360,684 total reported compensation
- EMMA M HERSHEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $297,769 total reported compensation
- HOLLIS E GORRIE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $270,327 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Clearbrook empowers adults and children with intellectual/developmental disabilities to live their fullest lives possible.
What it reported doing in 2024
Early intervention children's (0-3) services and family community resource center for over 5,200 children with developmental disabilities and delays on an annual basis. This includes clinical and therapeutic service, assessments and case coordination services as well as state required staff training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $68.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $361K · 43 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $393K reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.