Hoyleton Youth & Family Services

Legal name: Hoyleton Youth and Family Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
371222958
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Fairview Heights, IL, US
Phone
(618) 688-4727
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Specialized Education Institutions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,244,212
Expenses
$32,707,619
Assets
$37,995,848
Liabilities
$19,138,540

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRIS L COX (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRIS L COX (PRESIDENT & CEO): $369,210 total reported compensation
  • SHAVONDA MITCHOM (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $207,864 total reported compensation
  • BRICE BLOOM-ELLIS (FORMER HCE): $205,902 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Help us transform the lives of youth & families in Southern Illinois

What it reported doing in 2024

Clinical and prevention: the clinical & prevention program is comprised of several different activities: counseling - the counseling care program has several different components. Hoyleton provides therapy to the children in our foster care program, and to their parents, in an attempt to resolve the problems that caused the children to be removed from their parent's care. Southern Illinois child death investigation task force - hoyleton serves as the fiscal agent and works to recruit a multidisciplinary coalition to assist on investigations involving...(see sch. O)(southern Illinois child death investigation task force cont.): unexplained, unexpected, unusual, suspicious, and/or inflicted serious life-threatening injuries and deaths of children under the age of 18. The task force serves Illinois' southern-most 34 counties; ensuring resources are available to small and rural counties.Illinois child death review (icdr) team - the idcr team exists to reduce the number of preventable child deaths in the state of Illinois. It is made up of multidisciplinary teams who review child deaths to understand the causes and reasons, and prevent future deaths. Hoyleton serves as the fiscal agent and the supervisory agency for dedicated program staff.teen pregnancy prevention prep - this program is designed to support the implementation of direct services, using curriculum that target children ages 11-18, in a defined geographic area with high need. These services are provided to residents of various youth facilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $36.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $27M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $369K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.4M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.