Sing - Shifting Into New Gear

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820867708
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Springfield, IL, USA
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rehabilitation Services for Offenders

Reported finances

Revenue
$96,959
Expenses
$98,274
Assets
$42

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lynard Joiner (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Maria Crawford (Chairperson - Board Member)
  • David Risley (Board Member)
  • Lynard Joiner (Executive Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

SING - Shifting Into New Gear is a reentry program servicing Central Illinois. We provide services to immediately released individuals from the Illinois Department of Corrections and various law enforcement agencies. The services include but not limited to financial literacy classes employment connections employment retention verifications transportation assistance housing assistance childcare assistance an various other services deemed necessary for the reentry process.

What it reported doing in 2025

We have completed our deliverables. However we have added seventeen 17 clients that need to complete the financial literacy by May 22 2025. We have created strategies with the assistance and partnership of employment service through Express Professionals. This partnership allows SING to meet multiple employers that have need to fulfil their employment needs. This also gives us multiple reviews of client employment improvements on a weekly basis. We have a goal reaching out to the University of Illinois at Springfield UIS in hopes to partner with them regarding employment placement resume building and hopefully classes that inspire our clients to thrive through re-entry in Sangamon County.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 8; 8th 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: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $300K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.