Clean Up - Give Back Org

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824822640
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Des Plaines, IL, USA
Phone
8472248592
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,016
Expenses
$58,375
Assets
$199,874
Liabilities
$134,445

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donna Adam (President)
  • Verneka Smith (Board Member and Chapter President)
  • Adrienne Eyer (Board Member and Chapter President)
  • John Terry (Board Member and Chapter President)

People named in this filing

  • Donna Adam (President)
  • Terry Thomas (Board Chair)
  • Carol Gliatis (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Trash cleanups and environmental conservation efforts

What it reported doing in 2024

School service learning and action. Students learn about needs in the community and other environmental issues related to waste and recycling. They collect plastic bags and film. Approximately 8,000 students from 36 schools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 43.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 49.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.