Made 2 Excel
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861815830
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8559406233
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development - Business
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,880
- Expenses
- $48,760
- Assets
- $22,120
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARRIE LOWE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CARRIE LOWE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KIM WINBUSH (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR)
- TERRY BISHOP- BISHOP PROMOTIONS (MEDIA OUTREACH OFFICER)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MADE 2 Excel is a Chicago based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of underserved youth through after school and financial literacy programs. We educate, inspire and cultivate healthy financial habits and knowledge for youth into adulthood. We help them become financially literate and responsible citizens.
What it reported doing in 2021
The MADE (my actions determine everything) Financialteens program successfully completed 5 months of the financial literacy teen building training in 2021. 18 teens successfully completed the months and demonstrated what is cultivated in the program. Areas of concentration for 2021 included but not limited to economics, investing, real estate, insurance and budgeting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 48.2%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 48.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.