Union Park High Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263131917
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7733458768
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,975,265
- Expenses
- $3,160,339
- Assets
- $653,512
- Liabilities
- $462,692
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of union park high schools (uphs) is to create a learning environment that would enable all students to graduate prepared for success in college, career, and civic life. Through its implementation of the john hopkins university's talent development high schools model in its high schools, uphs will help empower students academically, personally, and socially to enable them to pursue, with success, a broad array of options and opportunities for continuing education and development. Uphs is supported primarily by grants from various community and corporate organizations and foundations as well as the general public.chicago talent development high school (ctdhs) was established in 2009 as the first contract high school managed and governed by union park high schools under the john hopkins university's talent development model. Chicago talent was approved as a charter school in its second year (2010) and changed its name to chicago talent development charter high school.
What it reported doing in 2012
Union park, under its single school, the chicago talent development charter school, served approximately 290 students in a college prep charter high school accredited by the Illinois state board of education.held 14 after school programs/clubs and 5 athletic teams.hosted numerous parent and community events to engage local organizations and the school's parents with the school.partnered with three local organizations to provide mentoring with 20% of the student body focused on career and college.graduated 54 seniors out of 58, 92% of whom were accepted into college.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.