Investigators have determined that alleged pyramid schemes run by a South Side pastor took in nearly $3 million and involved 1,922 victims of all ages and from many walks of life, a court-appointed receiver reported Tuesday.

The receiver, Mitchell Ware, also disclosed in a status report that Rev. T.L. Barrett, pastor of Life Center Church of Universal Awareness, 5500 S. Indiana Ave., operated three separate schemes, two more than previously disclosed.

Ware told Cook County Circuit Judge Robert Sklodowski, who is hearing a suit brought against Rev. Barrett by Illinois Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan, that only about $200,000 is available in bank accounts to pay the nearly $3 million in claims filed so far.

''The pyramids appear to involve every segment of the population of the metropolitan Chicago area,'' Ware said in a five-page report. ''No segment of the population was excluded.

''Claims have been filed by blacks, whites, Hispanics, minors, senior citizens and handicapped individuals,'' the report said.

''There were high school students, college students, clerical people, sales people, professional people, (and) city, county, state and federal employees,'' the report said.

Ware said a paralegal in his office has been assigned to accept claims and documentation from victims, and that within a month he expects to file a comprehensive report with Sklodowski identifying claimants with documentation, those without documentation and those who have received payouts from the schemes.

Ware outlined three separate operations that Rev. Barrett headed.

The first was the publicly disclosed scheme in which, beginning last May 15, Rev. Barrett asked people to make $1,500 investments. They were promised they would receive a return of $12,000 by bringing new members into the program.

Rev. Barrett agreed to end that plan on July 1 after prodding by the Illinois attorney general`s office and the Cook County state`s attorney`s office.

On July 6, Rev. Barrett introduced a new plan for quick money, Ware said. He asked people to pay $1,500 each to enroll in the T.L. Barrett Institute for Positive Improvement.

This second scheme ''replaced the original pyramid when there was some determination that the original pyramid scheme was legally questionable,''

Ware`s report said.

The institute program accepted amounts ranging from $500 to $1,500. A contributor to the Institute for Positive Improvement was to attend classes conducted by Rev. Barrett and, upon completion, would receive between $2,000 and $12,000, depending on how much money the person provided, Ware said.

Unlike the first scheme, Ware said there are no known winners from the second pyramid.

The third pyramid scheme involved contributions of $5,000 with the promise of receiving $40,000 by bringing other contributors into the program. There also are no known winners of this scheme, Ware wrote.

Ware was appointed at the request of Hartigan, and with the agreement of Rev. Barrett, who voluntarily stopped the schemes. Rev. Barrett has provided the attorney general`s office with records of the programs and is cooperating in the effort to identify investors.