Archeworks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363912263
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128677254
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Graduate, Professional Schools (Separate Entities)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $271,507
- Expenses
- $362,893
- Assets
- $25,247
- Liabilities
- $6,195
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMY CASSELL IIDA ASID LEED AP (DIRECTOR)
- GHIAN FOREMAN (DIRECTOR)
- HOWARD CONANT JR (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. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Archeworks is a multi-disciplinary design organization, post-graduate school, and non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing the public mission of design. Archeworks inspires and envisions a better quality of life for communities through socially responsible and environmentally conscious design solutions that address the greatest urban challenges of the 21st century.
What it reported doing in 2017
Archework's major objectives are to affect meaningful social and environmental changes at different scales of intervention and for its work to have greater influence on community development and environmental health in the long-term. With the assistance of project mentors, our students research, design and develop products/projects/plans of social importance. Recent projects focus on renewing neighborhood open space, improving the environmental health of cities, strengthening underserved communities, and understanding urban ecological issues vital to sustaining the chicago retion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -52.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $269K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.