America's Children's Museum on Wheels Story Bus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274188877
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Highland Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8474338601
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $23,267
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOLORES KOHL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DOLORES KOHL (PRESIDENT)
- MARSHA HAWLEY (DIRECTOR)
- JIM JENKINS (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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To expose young children from low-income neighborhoods to literature and the benefits of literacy skills.
What it reported doing in 2017
The storybus has visited numerous pre-k and elementary schools in the city of chicago and its suburbs during the year. Many children have been presented with materials that exposed them to reading and literature and fostered and enhanced their appreciation for and the use of literary skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -149.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.