Friends of Escuela Cooperativa De Sayul- Ita

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815475752
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Glen Ellyn, IL, USA
Phone
3127203221
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$91,441
Expenses
$76,443
Assets
$138,455
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lawrence Casazza (President)

People named in this filing

  • Lawrence Casazza (President)
  • Jaquelyn Casazza (Treasurer)
  • Sharon Silverman (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

Auxiliary group to small Montessori-like school in Mexico.

What it reported doing in 2025

We provide grants to a Not For Profit Civil Association in Mexico called Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, which runs a school for 3-5 year olds that will contribute to their early development and start them on a path to lifelong success. Our organization, Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, raises funds in Illinois, in order to meet the needs of the organization in Mexico. This happens at regular budgetary and cash flow meetings where leadership from the school shares their financial data with leadership of the 501(c)3 and makes plans to address specific needs which are flexible. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has no decision making authority over Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, and the two Boards operate entirely independently of one another. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has final and ultimate authority over how much to grant and when to grant its funds as raised. The funds of each organization are never co-mingled or co-managed in any way. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has no employees, and we have used 100% of the funds we have raised to date on our mission. For more information on the school, please see https://www.escuelasayulita.org/.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 16.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 63; 63rd 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: -31.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.