Ulon
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822728205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128348020
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,732
- Expenses
- $167,262
- Assets
- $3,834
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANEE EDWARDS (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SHANEE EDWARDS (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- JASON DAVIS (DIRECTOR)
- PIERRE KELLER (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ulon is one of the most pivotal community based nonprofit organizations in chicago, focusing anti-recidivism, gang recruitment intervention, after school homework resources, life skills education courses, computer-based job skills training, job referrals, homelessness intervention, community services including the providing food and clothing vouchers. At ulon, there is no charge, ever, for any service that ulon provides.
What it reported doing in 2022
Anti-recidivism, ulon works with ex-offenders to build a state of mind that can lead to success. Ulon starts to personal assessments of a client's history including education, work history, as well client's interaction with the police, justice system, incarceration, probation and release. From these histories ulon builds an assessment of strengths and weaknesses and develops a personalized plan of action for each client. With these plans of action in place, ulon assists its clients in building their life and work skills through its computer-based skills training and referrals to its partner community service organization for more specialized training for specifically identified job opportunities. Upon completion of ulon's plan of action for a client, ulon will help each client build a professional resume, and work with their clients to introduce them to ulon's partner agencies that also work with former offenders. Computer-based job skills training, ulon assesses participants current skills through in-take testing, then provides a curated online lesson plan during which instructor is available to answer questions, and coach the participant to a level of proficiency for each skill. When the participant achieves the skill level that is expected in the job market, ulon certifies their proficiency and then refers the participant to one of ulon partner organizations who specialize in job opportunity for the respective skill. After-school homework resources, through its community outreach programs ulon entices the neighborhood young people to come into the resource center; getting them off the streets, with the computer and internet access incentive, which is especially attractive who do not have regular access to these learning tools. Ulon provides a facilitator to help with questions, as well as water, juice and healthy snacks. Life skills education courses, ulon provides courses that provide clients with an understanding of parenting skills, family conflict resolution, etiquette and interpersonal skills, creation of a family budget, balancing a checkbook, basic banking expectations, along with introduction to healthy food selection and preparation. Community service- ulon provides services for several chicago neighborhood communities through graffiti removal and general cleaning community campaigns.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -3.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.