Cluster Tutoring Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363835179
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7733785530
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,502
- Expenses
- $220,224
- Assets
- $229,264
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leslie Hodes (President)
People named in this filing
- Leslie Hodes (President)
- Lenetta Thomas (Treasurer)
- Amy Lazzeretti (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of learning edge is to strive for more equity in education by providing chicago area students who live in underserved communities free one-to-one tutoring and academic enrichment opporunities enhanced by caring mentoring relations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cluster tutoring dba learning edge tutoring is a nonprofit community-based organization that provides free one-to-one tutoring to more than 100 k through 12 students who are primarily from the austin neighborhood of chicagos west side. The program was founded in 1990 by a cluster of local churches and community groups in response to the disturbing statistic that less than half of chicago public school students graduate from high school. Each tutor is matched with a student and the tutor-student pair works together during the school year to prepare the student for a successful academic career. Students and tutors work together during the school year on either a monday afternoon from 3 pm to 4 pm. Or a monday tuesday or thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The program has a focus on literacy and offers all participants access to a reading specialis. Along with specialized reading assistance tutors provide homework help and the program provides all participants with academic enrichment opportunities. Activities that may be offered during the tutoring session include college and career preparation support managed by a staff member educational games in math and reading homework help academic mentoring and activities that are accessible in learning edge libraries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $220K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.