Arthur Lockhart Resource Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363602246
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7733789649
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$248,619
Expenses
$260,192
Assets
$31,227
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Elizabeth Lockhart (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tina Wilkerson (Social Worker): $33,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Arthur Lockhart Resource Institute is a not-for-profit human/social service organization committed to enriching, empowering, and encouraging the positive growth of low-income families, veterans, seniors, and youth of the Austin/West Garfield Community in Chicago, Illinois. We seek to improve the economic, education, psychological, social experiences, and health wellness of the Austin/West Garfield Community by bridging the generational gap, advocating for seniors, and providing advocacy for those in need. We further believe the key to advancing our communities lies in equipping families through education and training with the tools necessary to live healthy and productive lives

What it reported doing in 2025

Building Me Anti-Violence Youth Program. The program address community issues of teen violence, trauma, connectedness, delinquency, and education. It provides activities and workshops that encourage youth to stay in school, increase reading and math and utilize nonviolence techniques in their everyday lives. We offer Martial Arts classes to center youth minds in learning to control their emotions. We push students to graduate, go to college or work, and develop career paths. After the six-week program interval, students coordinator with trainers and design A Say NO to Drugs and Violence Peace Rally, where students, parents, and the community engages in a march and other activities aimed at helping to resolve issues that cause violent results. The parade consists of floats, back-to-school supplies distribution, vendors, additional resources, and food. We trained 30 youth, distributed 300 book bags, and fed more than 400 families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0.3%; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $236K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 24 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule M noncash within contributions did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.