Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363223988
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Springfield, IL, USA
Phone
3124274460
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$358,708
Expenses
$372,894
Assets
$427,692
Liabilities
$20,910

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • AISHA CHAUDHRI (CO-DIRECTOR): $98,944 total reported compensation
  • CHOYA WEBB (CO-DIRECTOR): $92,545 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Icah is a network of empowered youth and allied adults who transform public consciousness and increase the capacity of family, school and healthcare systems to support the sexual health, rights and identities of youth.

What it reported doing in 2024

At icah, we educate, advocate, organize, and shift culture through arts-based programming, sex ed, adult ally cultivation, and developing youth leaders and organizers. For over three decades of our 45 year history, we've trained young people to organize around the reproductive justice (rj) issues impacting their lives and communities. Our powerful youth-led organizing, advocacy, and education - including groundbreaking performances, messaging, research, and actions - have sparked important cultural shifts and policy changes that have sent ripples across the midwest and beyond. Our work bridges youth organizing and arts-based strategies. Driven by the conviction that cultural problems demand cultural solutions, all of icah's programs integrate a rigorous cultural strategy. We use art to uproot shame and stigma by infusing otherwise difficult conversations with pleasure and joy. Through our strategic plan, icah's current focus is uplifting disability justice, economic justice, and healing justice and how they intersect with rj.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 51.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 60.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $227K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.