Community Assisted Rides
Legal name: Interfaith Community Partners Dba Community Assisted Rides
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364400624
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- La Grange, IL, USA
- Phone
- 708-354-9328
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $339,858
- Expenses
- $263,587
- Assets
- $673,467
- Liabilities
- $12,415
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bob Grecco (President)
- Doris Bryant (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Janet Garreau (Executive Dir.): $87,453 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community Assisted Rides (CARS) supports older adults by providing free, compassionate transportation and supportive community outreach that helps them stay connected and thrive as they age. Our partnership with local congregations plays a crucial role in our mission to assist older adults in thriving as they age and foster community support and outreach in the communities we serve. If you’d like your church to be affiliated with CARS, please call us at (708) 354-9328 and ask for executive director, or fill out our contact form. All Saints Episcopal Church, Western Springs* Congregation of Saint Joseph. SUPPORT OUR MISSION WITH TRUST AND CONFIDENCE CARS has earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, demonstrating our commitment to operating with integrity and transparency.
What it reported doing in 2025
Trained Volunteers Provide Accompanied Transportation, Friendly Phone Calls, Home Visits, Card Ministry, Petal Pushers Flower Deliveries, and Resources to older adult clients
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.