Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311815061
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3129569489
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,687
Expenses
$124,380
Assets
$599
Liabilities
$1,000

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GERALDINE MASCARENAS LEOPOLDO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • GEMMA ESMALLA (BOARD PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GERALDINE MASCARENAS LEOPOLDO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • GEMMA ESMALLA (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • LUIS PASCASIO (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT)

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

Mission development and popularization of community arts aesthetic and pedagogy that speak of the immigrant experience within the changing multicultural landscape of america. Celebrate the histories and artistic legacies of america's diverse cultural terrain through participatory art creation. Vision-vibrant communities that are fully empowered to determine their collective destinies and to realize their hopes and dreams. Belief we believe in the power of the arts to reflect the immigrants' experience and to fully engage them in realizing their collective vision for their communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Cultural activism - for 2025, we continued our partnership with the department of disability and human development at the university of Illinois at chicago, leading storytelling workshops. Additionally, we hosted numerous workshops in the community, at schools, and at various events, including cultural conversations in partnership with the league of chicago theaters, and a storytelling workshop through the Illinois humanities program, as well as community conversations with the Illinois humanities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.5%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 48%; rating input score 48

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.67; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 50.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.5% of revenue deployed · 48% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.