Chicagoland Bridges of Meaning
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994361566
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3126161600
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,720
- Expenses
- $77,199
- Assets
- $11,521
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Samuel Tideman (President)
- Moises Pacheco (Vice President, Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Samuel Tideman (President)
- Moises Pacheco (Vice President, Treasurer)
- Daniel Wagenmaker (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
The Corporation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. More specifically, the Corporation facilitates educational engagement through in-person and online dialogue in diverse fields of study such as theology, psychology, philosophy, history, and related topics; thereby fostering deepend understanding and learning.
What it reported doing in 2025
Midwestuary 2025: Fellowship of the Spirit. The corporation hosted a 3-day conference with six internationally-known speakers. Approximately 375 conference attendees discussed (among other things) the psychological and spiritual aspects of emerging artificial intelligence on community formation. Expenses primarily consisted of facility rental, food and beverages for conference attendees, and speaker stipends and travel accommodations. The organization was able to offer approximately 40 reduced or free admissions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 13%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.