Deerfield Park Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363300363
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Deerfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8479450650
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,843
- Expenses
- $44,896
- Assets
- $185,539
- Liabilities
- $7,750
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHRISTINE NOGAL (DIRECTOR)
- MATT KERBIS (CHAIRPERSON)
- ZACK RAIMI (VICE CHAIRPE)
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 objective of deerfield park foundation is to provide educational, recreational, scientific, and charitable activities in the deerfield community. The product of such promotional services include sponsoring recreational/educational events (specifically for the "special" population), providing recreational equipment and space at park facilities, sponsoring various youth organizations and programs and providing scholarships to community residents who are unable to pay resident fees for programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation supports scholarships for all residents in financial need to attend deerfield park district programs, college scholarships, free swimming on july 4th, and more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.13; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.