Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364092979
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lagrange, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124091845
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,607
- Expenses
- $73,194
- Assets
- $29,683
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MADONNA MUSCARELLO (PRESIDENT)
- ELLEN WOODS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN WHITE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MADONNA MUSCARELLO (PRESIDENT)
- ELLEN WOODS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GERARD HADERLEIN (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Catholic citizens of Illinois is an organization of lay catholics working to restore catholic values to the public life and culture of Illinois, within the framework of genuine renewal, fidelity to the teaching of the church, and the holy father.
What it reported doing in 2025
Quarterly newsletter/website/advertising with recent news stories, editorials and opinions impacting catholics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.