Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821781424
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6308547172
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,406
- Expenses
- $90,983
- Assets
- $62,688
- Liabilities
- $993
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rev Allison Farnum (Minister and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Rev Allison Farnum (Minister and Executive Director)
- Keith Talley (Prison Solidarity Specialist)
- George Peck Jr (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prison ministry: To bring comfort to incarcerated individuals. To assist individuals released from prison in reintegrating into society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ministry: 77% of total expenses go to staff salaries and associated professional expenses for travel and incidentals. This compensation is a major driving force in the programming, as the Minister and the Prison Solidarity Specialist [associate] co-lead with volunteers or lead workshops, education opportunities, as well as providing administrative support without which said programming would not occur. The minister and associate also provides spiritual care, leadership and is a driver of communication amongst leaders and volunteers in the various team ministries while also serving as a representatives and information-sharer in community spaces on behalf of the organization, reaching 1200 contacts in Illinois through our newsletter and working with leaders and teams in the working ministries of Education (currently 50 people), Advocacy (20 people), Inside ministry (13 people), Solidarity Circles (15 people), as well as reaching congregations through Sunday morning services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.