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Growing Home

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Healthy people and communities

Growing Home has a vision of a world of healthy people and communities. Everyone deserves to have a good job, and everyone deserves to eat well. That's why we've been helping people find meaningful careers through skills learned while farming since 2002. Growing Home is Chicago's leading expert in farm-based training for people with employment barriers. By providing 25 hours per week of paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training at our farms, plus the support to conquer issues like criminal records, medical needs, child-care, and housing, we have changed the lives of hundreds of workers, and thousands of their family members.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

81.65Overall score
out of 100

75.32Financial score
out of 100

92.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$1,544,137

Total expenses · USD$1,431,946

Program expenses

$1,045,320.58 recorded amount

73.0%

Fundraising expenses

$236,271.09 recorded amount

16.5%

Administrative expenses

$148,922.38 recorded amount

10.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.21 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: This organization did not report a CEO
Recorded compensation: Not reported in source
Recorded compensation percentage: Not reported in source

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Growing Home
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	92.0
`category` Category	Education
`description` Mission & description	Growing Home has a vision of a world of healthy people and communities. Everyone deserves to have a good job, and everyone deserves to eat well. That's why we've been helping people find meaningful careers through skills learned while farming since 2002. Growing Home is Chicago's leading expert in farm-based training for people with employment barriers. By providing 25 hours per week of paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training at our farms, plus the support to conquer issues like criminal records, medical needs, child-care, and housing, we have changed the lives of hundreds of workers, and thousands of their family members.
`ein` EIN	36-3989426
`tot_exp` Total expenses	1431946.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.10400000000000001
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.21
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.165
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.73
`fscore` Financial score	75.32
`leader` Recorded leader	This organization did not report a CEO
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	Not reported (blank source field)
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	Not reported (blank source field)
`motto` Tagline	Healthy people and communities
`name` Charity name	Growing Home
`tot_rev` Total revenue	1544137.0
`score` Overall score	81.65
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Adult Education Programs and Services
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1045320.58
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	236271.09000000003
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	148922.38400000002

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-3989426
Source category: Education
Source subcategory: Adult Education Programs and Services
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.