Community Services League of Jackson County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430976396
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Independence, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8169124500
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,729,037
- Expenses
- $11,407,875
- Assets
- $5,928,713
- Liabilities
- $587,440
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUG COWAN (PRESIDENT CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DOUG COWAN (PRESIDENT CEO): $174,515 total reported compensation
- DONNA BRADFORD (CFO): $166,455 total reported compensation
- LYNN ROSE (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $137,748 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist communities in reaching their potential by providing immediate relief to people in need assessing their situations and providing solutions that lead to economic stability.
What it reported doing in 2024
Csl focuses our programmatic efforts on housing and homeless services; workforce development; wealth and asset development: and providing critical basic needs for low-income households.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
- 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 50.4%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $230K reported
- Consistency: 46 of 48 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.