Leu Civic Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371056779
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mascoutah, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6185662175
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $242,214
- Expenses
- $231,892
- Assets
- $381,030
- Liabilities
- $27,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS BANDRE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNA SMITH (EXECUTIVE DI): $34,844 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A united way agency, provides a safe place for sturctured family support services and recreational activities based on the needs and interests of all members of the agency and community regardless of gender, ability level, or financial condition. The community and family support services provides for a blending of human diversity; creates harmony and unity of purpose for all. The center plans, organizes, and executes recreational, social, and family support activities to bring people together, build friendships, foster a strong sense of belonging to the community and develop community pride for the betterment of the community as a whole.
What it reported doing in 2025
A united way agency, provides a safe place for structured family support services and recreational activities for 6000 persons in the surrounding community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 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: 4.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $195K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.