Door County Summer Horizons Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851469463
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Lake Forest, IL, USA
Phone
3106334780
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employment N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,838
Expenses
$98,021
Assets
$165,179

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ROBERT F PERILLE (DIRECTOR & P)
  • AMY L PERILLE (DIRECTOR & V)
  • ANDREW J PERILLE (DIRECTOR & S)

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

Door county summer horizons (dchs) is a youth summer employment program in milwaukee, Wisconsin for teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods. Dchs overcomes the structural impediments to working in door county by providing transportation, housing, meals, supervision, coaching/mentoring and access to summer jobs. Summer and part time jobs are foundational to young people's development into responsible and productive adults. In addition to great summer work, dcsh will provide enrichment in the form of hikes, bike rides, theater, art, music, fishing, boating and more. Additionally, the dcsh supervisors and mentors will conduct reading and writing workshops and a course in financial literacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, we welcomed eight new boys from disadvantaged neighborhoods in milwaukee. The boys handled the challenge of their first summer job well and enjoyed the enrichment available in door county. Dcsh worked with employer partners who served as caring mentors for the boys. The boys took swimming lessons and completed a course in financial literacy. Consistent with previous years, all the boys finished the program with new skills, confidence, a deep appreciation for the outdoors, and over 2,000.00 for their first savings account. All of the boys planned to graduate from high school.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97

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: 22.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.