Unchained Realities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462528585
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5049444090
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $316,640
- Expenses
- $346,911
- Assets
- $54,847
- Liabilities
- $8,457
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENT DELARGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KIM DELARGE SR (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRENT DELARGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KIM DELARGE SR (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- KORYE DELARGE (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2013 Unchained Realities, Inc., is a 501(c)3 dedicated to revolutionizing the lives of youth, age 8-21, in the New Orleans area by providing quality educational resources, healthy initiatives, sports activities, E-sports and job skills training. Unchained Realities, Inc. is the only organiztion in the New Orleans area that offers this array of resources to the youth. The main objective is to allow youth the opporunity to realize there are no boundaries on what they can achieve in life.
What it reported doing in 2025
We expanded our guns-for-gaming console trade-in initiative in partnership with New Orleans Recreation Development Commission, creating a safe and impactful pathway for community members to exchange firearms for PlayStation and Xbox consoles. This evolution of our program combines violence prevention with youth engagement, turning potential harm into opportunity by connecting participants to positive outlets like gaming, mentorship, and digital skill-building. Through this expansion, we also deepened our investment in the future of our youth- awarding over 20 college scholarships to deserving participants. By pairing immediate incentives with long-term support, we are not only helping remove guns from our communities but also opening doors to higher education and brighter pathways forward.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -64% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $302K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.