Project Alex Communities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821088045
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- West Dundee, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8474960321
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,217
- Expenses
- $14,633
- Assets
- $150,715
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joelle Brescia (President)
- Jason Brescia (President of Project ALEX Operations)
- Derrick Lord (President of Project ALEX Holdings)
People named in this filing
- Joelle Brescia (President)
- Anthony Brescia (Treasurer)
- Diane Pfister (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Project ALEX Communities is to establish a safe living environment and create a community atmosphere for adults with disabilities and non-disabled individuals to live together, support each other, and thrive.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food Sponsor for Hoffman Estates Commission for People With Disabilities- First Friday
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.2%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 14
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 81%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.3; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.2% of revenue deployed · 14.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.