Dupage Pads Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363675494
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6306823846
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,300,631
- Expenses
- $12,463,496
- Assets
- $18,071,332
- Liabilities
- $5,875,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- APRIL REDZIC (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- APRIL REDZIC (PRESIDENT & CEO): $228,659 total reported compensation
- SCOTT AUSTGEN (VP OF PROGRAMS): $155,968 total reported compensation
- KARIN OBMAN (VP OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS): $152,543 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dupage p.a.d.s. Is committed to ending homelessness in dupage county.
What it reported doing in 2024
Client service center - individuals and families obtain services to address the root causes of homelessness, including basic needs assistance; on-site parenting, self-esteem and other groups/workshops; linkages to medical, substance abuse and mental health services; access to laundry and shower facilities; and daily lunches. Dupage pads also asists individuals to obtain and retain employment, and assists clients to become job-qualified include computer classes, resume writing, job search and interviewing skills. Pads works with employers to match individuals with living-wage jobs. Nonnprofessional volunteer hours in the amount of $1,173 (69 hours @ $17/hour) were not included in the total penses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $229K · 26 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.