South Side Healthy Community Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872767309
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Phone
- 872-274-4688
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,085,227
- Expenses
- $35,121,600
- Assets
- $33,251,293
- Liabilities
- $28,883,246
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kimberly Hobson (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Kimberly Hobson (CEO): $403,620 total reported compensation
- Sarah Janvier (COO): $193,391 total reported compensation
- Stephanie Barnett (HR Director): $128,428 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to work together to improve the health and well-being of our south side community. Rooted on the South Side and serving a community of BIPOC families, Chicago Birthworks Collective provides culturally centered doula support through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Their mission is to empower parents as they navigate one of the most meaningful chapters of their lives, ensuring families are supported and informed every step of the way. admin2026-01-30T01:43:22+00:00. CHICAGO –** The South Side Healthy Community Organization (SSHCO), a state-funded nonprofit healthcare collaborative working to close health gaps across Chicago’s South Side, has announced a free doula services program, delivered in partnership with Chicago Birthworks Collective (CBC). The program provides expectant parents who are uninsured or covered by Medicaid with no-cost doula care, including 3...
What it reported doing in 2024
HTC Program- To build a healthcare system that will prioritize community needs, intervene earlier and respond better. Also build health equity and ensure stronger, healthier communities across the South Side of Chicago.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $404K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.8M reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.