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COMPASS FOR KIDS

EIN 81-2829202 SPRINGFIELD, IL

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Revenue 2024
$2,697,892
Expenses 2024
$2,031,928

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
1201 S 4TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Compass for Kids is to provide academic and social-emotional support to empower children and families underserved by our community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of Compass for Kids is to provide academic and social-emotional support to empower children and families underserved by our community. Our vision is that all children in our community experience success and reach their full potential. Our programs are: Club Compass, Camp Compass, and Youth Leadership Development Program.

  • Camp Compass is a free summer learning program for low-income, underserved, elementary students of Springfield Public Schools - District 186. Camp Compass is designed to prevent summer learning loss and improve reading and math skills. The overarching purpose is to reduce the achievement gap that exists between low-income students and their higher-income peers by bringing students up to grade level academically. Camp Compass is a hybrid between a summer school and a camp. On one hand, Camp Compass is an academic intervention where licensed teachers instruct the students three hours per day, five days per week, for the six weeks of camp. In addition, Camp Compass incorporates enrichment activities and field trips for a fun camp-like environment. These enrichment experiences address the opportunity gap in addition to the academic achievement gap. Transportation to and from the program, breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack, and weekend food are provided.

    Expenses $1,219,464 · Revenue $1,313,054

  • Club Compass is a weekly program for low-income, underserved, elementary students in Springfield Public Schools - District 186. Club Compass pairs volunteer mentors with the students and teaches them social-emotional and life skills in a safe, structured, positive environment. Club Compass is currently serving students from five schools: Black Hawk, Dubois, Graham, Harvard Park, and McClernand. Club Compass has a volunteer driven, community based model. Each school Club Compass serves is paired with two or more community partners, which host the Club Compass site for their neighborhood school. Each Club Compass site has the same major components: snack, an evidence-based social-emotional curriculum lesson, academic time, Life Skills classes, and a healthy, family-style dinner. Club Compass is free to participating students. All students are selected and referred by their school.

    Expenses $253,436

  • Youth Leadership Development Program is designed to provide middle and high school alumni of Club Compass the opportunity to develop as leaders, and be prepared for college, vocational / trade school, the military, and/or to enter the workforce. The ultimate goal is for these youths to graduate from high school and be ready to achieve their dreams.

    Expenses $135,263

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • April Miles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beverly Chapman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brittani Hopper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catherine Scherschel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christy Crites

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donna Smylie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Thomason

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Sullivan

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lakeisha Purchase

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linsay Gordon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Blitstein

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Crews

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ray Zinnen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jay Behrends

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brad Menezes

    director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maryann Phillips

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Molly Berendt

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $107,653
    From this org
    $107,653
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sarah Oglesby

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $81,932
    From this org
    $81,932
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,697,892
    Expenses
    $2,031,928
    Contributions
    $1,287,958
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,236,698
    Expenses
    $2,031,441
    Contributions
    $1,065,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,526,706
    Expenses
    $1,390,586
    Contributions
    $613,241
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,224,006
    Expenses
    $1,004,371
    Assets (EOY)
    $976,301

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,071,660
    Expenses
    $895,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $787,739

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $932,759
    Expenses
    $796,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $597,711

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $469,363
    Expenses
    $461,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $403,951

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,458
    Expenses
    $316,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $417,332

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,458
    Expenses
    $316,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $417,332

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,640
    Expenses
    $200,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,234

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.