T E and Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311576027
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3122173546
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,621
- Expenses
- $101,948
- Assets
- $44,258
- Liabilities
- $4,931
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Tricia Edwards (Key Employee)
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
The purpose of this program is to help keep children off of drugs, out of the streets, and out of gangs. Strengthen families, give back to the community, and help the environment. To support/ help children succeed academically, by giving them positive choices to choose from, to help children find ways to handle their emotions and their relationships with others without shooting and killing each other. We serve inner/outer of city students ages 5 high school, to succeed academically by giving them choices to choose from something positive. An alternative to participate in a positive performing arts/theater and television program as opposed to other negative activities. They become committed to excellence in a tradition of learning and culture. Since TEs involve children from low-income to dysfunctional families, at risk, low self - esteem, space and financial assistance is greatly needed
What it reported doing in 2025
Services provided: Addresses negative problems and issues. T. E. helps children find ways to handle their emotions and their relationships with others. They are introduced and taught through hands-on training. Children learn to relatevto one another, to teach other children, to recognize and value his or her individuality as a person, strengthen their freedom to make appropriate choices and respect themselves, as well as others and their environment. Their academic skills are improved, which helps them to launch out wisely and purposefully, they want to learn. Where low self esteem, problems at home, in school, were a major factor, they are now basically seeing themselves as a force of strength to excel into the ebbs and flows of a world of challenges, opportunities and change. This benefited 30 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 29.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.