Awakenings Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271747959
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7739897730
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $282,259
- Expenses
- $321,756
- Assets
- $233,791
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christina Bourne (President)
- Laura Kinter (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Laura Kinter (Executive Director): $87,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Awakenings provides survivors of sexual violence with a trauma-informed, inclusive art making experience that encourages healing.
What it reported doing in 2024
Awakenings multi-media art gallery features the artistic expression of sexual abuse survivors. Showcasing stories of survival, helping survivors find peace.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $228K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.