Startup Gary Community Development Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852614576
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Gary, IN, USA
Phone
2192280011
Rating
97
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Urban, Community Economic Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,000
Expenses
$96,502
Assets
$31,290
Liabilities
$1,816

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Johnette Gore (Director President)

People named in this filing

  • Justin L Harris JD (Director)
  • Bahiyah Shabazz (Director Treasurer)
  • Cynthia Williams (Director 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Charitable and educational services. Mission is to empower residents of Gary to lead community redevelopment efforts through environmental remediation, land reuse planning, and community-rooted change.

What it reported doing in 2025

Launched 'GreenRoots Initiative' to advocate for brownfield identification, remediation, and redevelopment. Researched, identified, and mapped 150 brownfield sites, delivered six (6) community workshops on brownfield hazards and remediation, and hosted three (3) supplemental workshops on property acquisition. The project included In-Kind labor contributions of $45,000 and a Great Lakes Thriving Community grant from the Minneapolis Foundation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 127.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.