Easter Seals Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261207337
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3127266200
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KENDRA DAVENPORT (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KENDRA DAVENPORT (PRESIDENT & CEO): $559,769 total reported compensation
  • GLENDA OAKLEY (CFO): $266,234 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Easterseals foundation provides funds to support easterseals, inc. In leading the way to full equity, inclusion and access through life changing disability and community services.

What it reported doing in 2025

When active, easterseals foundation provides awards to easterseals to carry out its mission of creating life-changing solutions so that children and adults with disabilities or special needs and their families can live, learn, work and play in their communities. The easterseals foundation provides easterseals with funds to meet four objectives: 1) to deliver and maintain high quality services which meet the needs of children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families. 2) to empower children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families to find and make effective use of resources which support them in developing their abilities and living purposeful lives. 3) to assist local, domestic and international communities in the development and implementation of necessary and appropriate services for children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families. 4) to support the integration of children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families into the mainstream of community life.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $560K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.