KLEO Community Family Life Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262655597
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7088782423
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$24,721,398
Expenses
$26,415,979
Assets
$639,113
Liabilities
$1,654,848

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Torrey Barrett (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Erin Cross (Program Director): $243,653 total reported compensation
  • Ephraim Eaddy (COO): $157,886 total reported compensation
  • Jessica Moore (Admin Director): $108,795 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center is to Eradicate Violence by Bringing Opportunity to those in need through Arts, Culture, Workforce Development and STEM Education and to create a community where every person feels safe, loved and has an opportunity to thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

CHRC program is a program of the Chicago Community Health Response Corps under the Chicago Department of Public Health COVID-19/Community Health Response grant. This program is to provide training for the workers to have a safe and healthy working environment. This program is designed to target current youth and new youth interested in working toward a goal of developing workplace skills and gaining employment experience while exploring potential Career Pathways The Chicago Youth Service Corps (CYSC) provides young Chicagoans with the opportunity to build leadership and life skills through activities that will make a positive impact in their communities. Participants analyze problems in their community, and then research and implement solutions to those problems Emergency Shelter Programs are to provide immediate, safe, and secure lodging for individuals and families experiencing homelessness or those at imminent risk of it, offering them a stable place to stay while connecting them with supportive services to achieve long-term self-sufficiency and permanent housing One Summer Chicago Plus - One Summer Chicago Plus (OSC+) is a specialized violence prevention summer workforce program for high need youth ages 16 -21. The goal of Mayor Rahm Emanuels One Summer Chicago Plus (OSC+) program is to empower youth during summer months with safe, meaningful, work experience. Through the program, youth gain valuable job skills financial literacy and real-world work experience while being connected to caring adults, OSC+ provides youth subsidized wages for 20 hours a week.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,470.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.59; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $244K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.