Families Helping Families Chicagoland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811518108
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Gurnee, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8476684878
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,651
- Expenses
- $97,853
- Assets
- $86,395
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY NEWMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA DORE (DIRECTOR)
- MELANIE STAGMAN (DIRECTOR)
- GABBI SANDERS (DIRECTOR)
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
To meet the needs of children and families experiencing homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, and other challenges.
What it reported doing in 2025
To improve the needs of families with children and foster children in lake and cook county il. This includes clothing, household items, school supplies etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.9%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
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: 21.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.9% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.