Friendship Community Place

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844864467
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7734176428
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$164,101
Expenses
$207,655
Assets
$16,186
Liabilities
$58,721

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Shawna Bowman (Executive Dir.)
  • Kasey Trouba (COO)
  • Mark Flinchum (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

With our most vulnerable members & neighbors in mind Friendship Community Place works to center the agency & needs of people living in Chicago's Northwest Side experiencing housing and food in security physical disabilities or mental illness as well as veterans, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC black, indigenous, and people of color community members.

What it reported doing in 2025

Friendship community place is a community center for sharing resource, developing skills and knowledge, and deepening community partnerships. We engage in this work with awareness to chicago's history of segregation, and systemic racism. We draw on community organizaing tools such as antiracism training and trauma informed approaches to identify our own biases and participate in equity movements across our community through public programming including advocacy opportunities, civic engagement and the arts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74

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: -26.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.63; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 52.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $154K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.