Community Improvement Corp of Champaign County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341212162
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Urbana, OH, USA
Phone
9376537200
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,215
Expenses
$116,568
Assets
$209,138
Liabilities
$10,812

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE HESS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RICHARD EBERT (DIRECTOR)
  • BILL BEAN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • RYAN BERRY (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To stimulate economic growth throughout champaign county, Ohio by strengthening the county's competitive position and facilitating investments that build capacity with existing businesses, create jobs, generate economic opportunity and improve quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization (cep) promotes industrial, economic, commercial and civic development of champaign county. The organization operates as a liason for business, school, local government, private partners, and various state agencies in assisting with expansion and investment opportunities, potential tax abatements, and financial partnerships. Cep achieves these objectives by utilizing a full time economic director, maintaining a web site resource for businesses and site consultants including a free jobs board page, and available retail listings, and partnering with local educational institutions on workforce development initiatives such as a survey of local engineering employees. Cep is working on expanding infrastructure for new housing for the growing workforce and to attract people to move to champaign county. Cep created a jobs (jobs, opportunities, buildings and space) team, which visits local businesses to learn about what support they need to succeed and grow. Cep has developed the cep business playbook, available for download, to answer common questions about starting a business, where to go for help, registering a business, locating financial support, finding property, zoning, and recruiting and training a workforce.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 61% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 54.2%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.79; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 54.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 67 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 51 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.