Prime for Change Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332600658
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125352741
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $279,869
- Expenses
- $290,105
- Assets
- $12,726
- Liabilities
- $13,906
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAMMY BROWNLEE (CEO)
- CHARLES EDWARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TAMMY BROWNLEE (CEO): $17,340 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prime for change, nfp is dedicated to empowering youth and communities by breaking down barriers and building pathways to success. We provide youth development and life skills training, foster career pathways and workforce readiness, and offer vital victim support services that p
What it reported doing in 2025
Prime for change, nfp is dedicated to empowering youth and communities by breaking down barriers and building pathways to success. We provide youth development and life skills training, foster career pathways and workforce readiness, and offer vital victim support services that promote healing and resilience. Through community outreach and economic development, we create opportunities that strengthen families, restore hope, and inspire lasting change.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 31
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $290K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.