Living Well Cancer Resource Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161727774
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129269495
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,272,308
- Expenses
- $1,785,370
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide excellence in health care and to promote lifelong cancer support and wellness for individuals living with cancer and for their families.
What it reported doing in 2016
Living Well Cancer Resource Center is dedicated to providing people living with cancer, their families and friends, the support and educational services they need as they navigate their way through their diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Living Well's focus is to help cancer patients and their caregivers learn vital skills that enable the patients to regain control, reduce isolation and enhance their quality of life. Programs include: nutrition counseling, support groups, yoga and fitness classes, stress relief opportunities, a memoir writing group, bereavement, family support (including counseling for children and teens impacted by cancer) and support for cancer survivors. These services are offered at no cost to cancer patients and their families primarily in Kane County and DuPage County. Living Well's costs of operations are covered through fundraising and donations received from the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- 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: -40.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2M · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 42 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.