Chicago Central Area Committee

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
362318849
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3126025148
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$151,802
Expenses
$130,870
Assets
$35,973
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KELLY O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRE)

People named in this filing

  • KELLY O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRE)
  • GREG HUMMEL (CHAIRMAN & TREASURER)
  • TYLER MEYR (EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Community development

What it reported doing in 2020

The chicago central area committee (ccac) is an active coalition of the city's top business executives devoted to making chicago a better place to live, work and conduct business. Since its inception in 1956, the ccac remains committed to strengthening the image and viability of the chicago area. The agenda focuses on organizing top talent in the areas of architecture, planning, design, higher education, law and others to study and vision economic development opportunities for key areas in the city.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.