Eastlake Tenants Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992954485
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2242690157
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,986
- Expenses
- $42,141
- Assets
- $17,845
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Allauna Landheart (President)
People named in this filing
- Allauna Landheart (President)
- Niki Williams (Secretary)
- Trina Brown (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The East Lake Tenants Union (ELTU) is a nonprofit organization focused on grassroots organizing to empower low-income tenants in Chicago, particularly in predominantly Black and BIPOC communities. Our main activities include tenant advocacy, legal support, organizing campaigns for tenant rights, and educational workshops on housing justice. We work to secure affordable housing, fight against evictions, and provide resources to tenants in need, with a focus on organizing tenants into a collective voice for change.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tenant Organizing & Advocacy: Organizing events, meetings, and actions to support tenants' rights, including fighting evictions and securing repairs. Legal Support & Clinics: Providing or facilitating access to legal aid and tenant rights workshops for the community. Housing Advocacy: Campaigns or actions aimed at securing better housing conditions and tenant-controlled housing. Media & Storytelling: Creating content to raise awareness and mobilize support for tenant rights, including through social media, documentaries, and press releases. Community Outreach: Building relationships with local residents, organizing them into your union, and offering support to low-income and marginalized tenants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.