Easterseals Central Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 370686250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Peoria, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3096861177
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,149,658
- Expenses
- $13,284,395
- Assets
- $15,405,388
- Liabilities
- $1,499,262
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA RIDDLE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MELISSA RIDDLE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $251,309 total reported compensation
- ERIC GLOW (VP OF CLINICAL SERVICES): $164,092 total reported compensation
- BRICE WATSON (VP OF OPERATIONS): $157,181 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Easterseals central Illinois provides exceptional services to ensure children with developmental delays, disabilities and other special needs can reach their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Child and family connections of central Illinois - child and family connections (cfc) #14 located in west peoria and #16 in champaign are the regional intake offices for the Illinois early intervention system serving children aged birth to three years suspected of a developmental delay or disability and their families. Easterseals began management of these cfc offices on july 1, 2013. The offices provide service coordination and support services throughout eleven central Illinois counties. Early intervention credentialed service coordinators work with families to develop an individualized family service plan and help select service providers to meet the needs of their child. The two offices combined served 2,549 families during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 6.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $251K · 30 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.