Morning Star Community Development Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872850122
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7732858111
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$4,647
Assets
$2,029

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Henry A Barlow (President)

People named in this filing

  • Henry A Barlow (President)
  • Theodore H Bell II (Chairman)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At Morningstar Community Development Corporation, our primary exempt purpose is to engage and uplift the community through strategic partnerships and outreach initiatives. These initiatives include health-based efforts such as installing digital health education monitors in a group of churches, addressing physical and mental health issues, as well as housing concerns.

What it reported doing in 2024

Health Administration and Technology

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 5
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 5

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -197.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -106.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 5.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $241 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.