Lawndale Christian Health Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363308953
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Phone
- (872) 588-3000
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,565,268
- Expenses
- $98,256,937
- Assets
- $148,452,183
- Liabilities
- $33,181,832
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES BROOKS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- BRUCE ROWELL MD (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER - CLINICAL QUALITY): $329,093 total reported compensation
- WAYNE DETMER MD (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER - OPERATIONS): $309,490 total reported compensation
- JAMES BROOKS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $301,402 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lawndale Christian Health Center is dedicated to living out our mission to show and share the love of Jesus by promoting wellness and providing quality, affordable healthcare for Lawndale and the neighboring communities. LCHC’s Mobile Health Team provides healthcare services within several partner homeless shelters across Chicago. The team makes regular visits to these shelters and is equipped to provide medical visits, limited prescriptions, behavioral health services, and more at no cost to shelter residents. Vision Care Optometry. We offer a wide range of health services for our patients, including medical, dental and vision care, as well as behavioral health and health support services. Click on the title to learn more about each service. Adult Health.
What it reported doing in 2024
At lchc, the health support services department staff members collaborate with the primary care providers to address patients' social and behavioral habits that limit their abilities to achieve or maintain good health. The department consists of two major areas: chronic disease and maternal and child health. Maternal and child health program provides case management to mothers at-risk for complicated pregnancies and provides education on parenting and relationships. The chronic care program emphasizes disease management, health and nutrition education, and physical fitness in eight key areas including chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, HIV, and cardiovascular disease that affect so many patients. The chronic care program was created to focus on providing education and self-management to patients with these four chronic diseases. The program's staff includes educators, a registered dietician, a nutritionist and outreach workers who provide screening and education throughout the community. The chronic care model, implemented under the auspices of hrsa's bureau of primary health care, consists of six interrelated components (community linkages, health systems, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems) that promote quality health care for people living with chronic illnesses. The standard model for primary care is a visit-based model that emphasized the treatment of acute symptoms in the context of a one-on-one clinic visit by a patient with a provider; this model focuses on the chief presenting problem. In a pcmh model of care, a team of health providers (physicians, nurses, psychologists, health educators, etc.) collaborate together with patients to improve their health and encourage overall wellness. The pcmh model, with its emphasis on care coordination, is especially appropriate for low-income patients with chronic disease and for populations experiencing health disparities. Chronic care educators play a key role in this model.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $86.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $329K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.