Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363456058
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Oak Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7087252460
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,922
- Expenses
- $229,818
- Assets
- $120,238
- Liabilities
- $6,645
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUE BOYER (PRESIDENT)
- INGA SIMITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUE BOYER (PRESIDENT)
- INGA SIMITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA CALLAHAN (TREASURER)
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
To promote community interest in the oak park conservatory, offer educational and recreational opportunities, and support projects that benefit the conservatory.
What it reported doing in 2024
Volunteers provide educational and recreational opportunities that teach and inspire visitors at the conservatory including the following: docent led tours of the showrooms serving preschool children through adult, monthly nature-inspired toddler-parent programming (toddler exploration time), weekly volunteer-led nature-themed drop-in storytime serving families, and summer docent-led nature-themed drop-in activities serving families of young children in the discovery garden (discovery garden exploration time). Volunteers run and support several community building events that attract hundreds of visitors to each event including kids-fest, uncorked, the annual garden walk, the annual plant sale and perennial/tool exchange. There are adult nature themed lectures throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 42
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: -41.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 42.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.