Southeast Community Services
Legal name: Southeast Community Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351318068
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- Phone
- 317.236.7400
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,457,108
- Expenses
- $2,329,141
- Assets
- $18,908,231
- Liabilities
- $122,086
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- PEGGY FRAME (Executive Dir.): $93,774 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Southeast Community Services partners with youth, families, individuals, seniors, immigrants, job seekers, and others facing uncertain circumstances—connecting people to what they need so no one has to navigate challenges alone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Southeast Community Services, SECS, was founded in 1972 as a consortium of neighborhood groups to deliver social services in the southeast side of Indianapolis. Our mission is to serve, strengthen, and support our southeast neighbors. Our vision is to address the comprehensive needs of all struggling individuals and families (neighbors) within southeast Indianapolis through a collaborative, wrap-around approach. Our entire organization operates as a Center for Working Families (CWF), providing financial literacy and coaching, employment and career coaching, adult basic education, as well as income and barrier busting support. We have been facilitating a Family Success Coaching model for the past several years, integrating trauma-informed care practices through a whole-family, multi-generational approach with customized financial and employment plans based on individual and family needs. While helping to strengthen family units, we also help parents and caregivers identify and pursue career goals, develop employment skills, and learn to reduce debt, build credit, save for their future, and navigate complex public benefit programs. We also work with youth in the family to increase success in school, progress to the next grade, participate in afterschool activities, and stay in the same school for the entire year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $437.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.12; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.