Congregations United to Serve Humanity Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201643797
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Kenosha, WI, USA
Phone
2625648223
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$31,784
Expenses
$55,264
Assets
$69,230
Liabilities
$6,288

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GRANT PITTS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KAREN KEMPINEN (PRESIDENT)
  • JUSTINE HAMMELEV-JONES (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GRANT PITTS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KAREN KEMPINEN (PRESIDENT)
  • JUSTINE HAMMELEV-JONES (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cush is an interfaith coalition actively living our faith and values in the pursuit of justice through advocacy, education and empowerment.

What it reported doing in 2025

The cush rainbow forward task force developed a relationship with a cush member-congregation to create a plan for a volunteer led youth program, designed to fill the gaps created by the sudden closure of the lgbtq center of southeast Wisconsin. Fifteen unique individuals participated in meetings throughout the year. The rainbow forward task force also held multiple demonstrations to raise awareness on the attacks and legislative setbacks suffered by the lgbtq community nationally throughout 2025. More than 19 unique individuals attended the 2025 transgender day of remembrance celebration (honoring the lives lost to anti-transgender violence). More than a dozen individuals participated in a stonewall anniversary celebration. An additional 10 individuals participated in a silent protest to raise awareness of lgbtq people, and another dozen participated in a workshop exploring the intersectionality of those queer individuals living with disability. Approximately one dozen individuals participated in an author talk co-hosted by cush in one of it's member congregations, featuring a discussion about american teenager with author nico lang. The task force participated in additional training and dialogue work, engaging more than 30 individuals in one-on-one conversations about their experience of ideological and demographic differences.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 63.8%; rating input score 64

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -73.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 63.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.