Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362312495
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8476950484
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,803,286
- Expenses
- $13,040,423
- Assets
- $9,163,980
- Liabilities
- $1,336,317
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAPHNE SANDOUKA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAPHNE SANDOUKA (CEO): $176,648 total reported compensation
- BRENDA REILLY (ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE): $152,009 total reported compensation
- RAMONA M GRAUZINIS (CHIEF HR OFFICER): $138,280 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ecker center offers various psychiatric services for adults and children, primarily in kane and western cook counties. The center provides quality mental health services that are courteous, accessible and responsive to community needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Elgin therapy - individual, group and family therapy services designed for children, adolescents and adults are provided for those experiencing depression, anxiety, phobias, suicidal thoughts and other psychiatric problems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 31 filed program accomplishments · $10.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $177K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $178K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.