Chicago Youth Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833905358
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7739999690
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,527
- Expenses
- $41,948
- Assets
- $76,909
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAYMOND LILJA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RAYMOND LILJA (PRESIDENT)
- ANNMARIE FREY-LILJA (TREASURER)
- AMI PAREKH (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
Is a women-led initiative that brings the joy of ice sports to Metro Chicago youth who would not otherwise gain the experience, improving their social and academic well-being and empowering them to find success through sportsmanship and teamwork.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program expenses for investing in ice sports activities for Metro Chicago youth who would not otherwise gain the experience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: 38.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.