Radical Love
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863829065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Geneva, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6309343933
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $238,797
- Expenses
- $233,482
- Assets
- $151,339
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELISSA LEBRON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELISSA LEBRON (PRESIDENT): $31,390 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be a community that reflects the radical love of jesus by loving and helping one another.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through relationships with local schools, we help meet the growing needs of children in our community. We organize collections for school supplies, snack bags filled with food for long weekends, books, winter gear and halloween costumes. We created a program called friendship and learning, where neighbors and their children partner with local resettled refugee neighbors and their children to teach/learn english. Trained teachers lead a formal esl class on speaking, reading and writing english, and then adults are paired up to practice new skills with a native-english speaker. Simultaneously, children are grouped together to play math games, read stories and just have fun together. The primary goal of this program is to form relationships that strengthen our community, increase compassion for one another, and see our shared humanity. Through local senior living organizations, we help pack food boxes for neighbors in need, and provide opportunities to connect with our elderly neighbors. Additionally, we equip children to write cards and chalk messages of love, encouragement, and friendship to these special neighbors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $44.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $209K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.