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The Cara Program

EIN 36-4268095Human Services Illinois Mid-sized

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Let's Get to Work

Cara prepares and inspires motivated people to break the cycles of homelessness and poverty, transform their lives, strengthen our communities, and forge paths to real and lasting success through quality employment. Since 1991, we have placed more than 6,300 individuals into more than 9,700 jobs at one-year retention rates of 70% or better, catalyzing the same number of families to stop the transfer of poverty from one generation to the next. Additionally, Cara leverages a social enterprise model in which we create or provide access to transitional or temporary jobs in the private sector through our businesses: Cleanslate, a neighborhood beautification business, and Cara Connects, a temp-to-perm staffing firm.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

89.59Overall score
out of 100

85.29Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$9,662,720

Total expenses · USD$8,392,715

Program expenses

$6,151,860.09 recorded amount

73.3%

Fundraising expenses

$990,340.37 recorded amount

11.8%

Administrative expenses

$1,233,729.10 recorded amount

14.7%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.19 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Maria Kim
Recorded compensation: $175,446.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.09%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Cara Program
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Human Services
`description` Mission & description	Cara prepares and inspires motivated people to break the cycles of homelessness and poverty, transform their lives, strengthen our communities, and forge paths to real and lasting success through quality employment. Since 1991, we have placed more than 6,300 individuals into more than 9,700 jobs at one-year retention rates of 70% or better, catalyzing the same number of families to stop the transfer of poverty from one generation to the next. Additionally, Cara leverages a social enterprise model in which we create or provide access to transitional or temporary jobs in the private sector through our businesses: Cleanslate, a neighborhood beautification business, and Cara Connects, a temp-to-perm staffing firm.
`ein` EIN	36-4268095
`tot_exp` Total expenses	8392715.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.147
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.19
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.11800000000000001
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.733
`fscore` Financial score	85.29
`leader` Recorded leader	Maria Kim
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	175446.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0209
`motto` Tagline	Let's Get to Work
`name` Charity name	The Cara Program
`tot_rev` Total revenue	9662720.0
`score` Overall score	89.59
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Social Services
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	6151860.095
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	990340.3700000001
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1233729.105

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-4268095
Source category: Human Services
Source subcategory: Social Services
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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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.