Cream City South Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994317987
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4147027904
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,139
- Expenses
- $122,567
- Assets
- $15,045
- Liabilities
- $115,621
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Colleen P Cheney-Trawinski (President and Executive Director)
- John Krawczyk (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Murry (Chairman of the Board)
- Colleen P Cheney-Trawinski (President and Executive Director)
- Ryan Tessmer (Chief Financial Officer, Director)
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
Work in collaboration with residents and businesses to build a strong, healthy and safe community, driven by the needs of the community where we serve. Promote home ownership in the community by working together as a partner in guiding and advising, helping the first-time homeowner in their goal of homeownership. Assist business owners in starting and growing their business through consulting, grant information, financing assistance and access to resources. Work together with local partners to increase the number of community focused activities in the area such as farmers' markets, cultural festivals, small business shoppers' day, walking tours and community clean ups.
What it reported doing in 2025
The corporation came into existence in August of 2024 and was in the process of acquiring contributions at 12/31/2024. The corporation has given advice to several small businesses as of that date. The corporation has been focusing on fundraising in order to reach more businesses in the area and provide advice in home ownership in the community we serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -107.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.69; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 84.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.