Law and Civics Readng and Writing Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272433648
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 98
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Behavioral Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,000
- Expenses
- $49,392
- Assets
- $45,581
- Liabilities
- $86,300
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Victoria Washington (Board President)
- Stanley Howard (President Admin Director)
People named in this filing
- Victoria Washington (Board President)
- Roydon Agent (Board Member)
- Nancy Rosenow (Board Member)
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
To conduct multi-disciplinary research application evaluation and advocacy on how children learn: birth through adolescence.
What it reported doing in 2025
With the support of our grantors who have enabled us to enjoy many successes this year that have helped our think-and-do tank move from theory to implementation and evaluation and to achieve the following specific goals: Completed phase 1 of EJ survey research in Chicagos Southland community and are excited and ready to begin implementation in early 2024. We continue to bring Southland communities together around our EJ STEM research on social and business media platforms. See our recent LinkedIn article and video Developing community-building partnerships and allyships with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization LVEJO and other Chicago EJ organizations. Completed Phase Planning Interfaith Black male gun violence project and produced our plan entitled Interfaith 378: Reclaiming the Human Spirit by Acknowledging and Reclaiming the Human Suffering of Black Boys and Young Men in America. Our schedule calls for implementation in early 2024. Participant in the 2nd Annual Non-profit Boot Camp focusing on Black-led and Black people serving non-profits; SF Bay Foundation @ African American Art and Culture Center San Francisco.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.89; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $472K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.