Jackson County Business Development Corp Aka Jackson Growth Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
371310980
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carbondale, IL, USA
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$114,151
Expenses
$101,518
Assets
$210,685

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Darrell Bryant (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Brooke Guthman (Vice-Chair)
  • John Barnett (Treasurer)
  • Brian Chapman (Chairman)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Statement 2 in Schedule O

What it reported doing in 2025

See Statement 3 in Schedule O

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.