Geneva Lions We Serve Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363634647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Geneva, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8123226655
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,595
- Expenses
- $25,320
- Assets
- $41,646
- 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
- SCOTT LEBIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTINE LAZARIS (DIRECTOR)
- MARK TUSKEN (DIRECTOR)
- ELLIOT BORTNER (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
The geneva lions we serve foundation ("glwsf") has the primary purpose of providing aid to the blind, visually impaired, deaf and hearing impaired. It is to provide that aid by performing service projects including collecting old eyeglasses and recycling them for reuse; paying for new eyeglasses for people who cannot afford them and performing free hearing and eye sight screening for the public.the foundation also provides grants to other social service organizations and provide scholarships to students in the geneva and st. Charles high schools.
What it reported doing in 2025
Glwsf provided 120 community residents with free eye exams and eyeglasses. These residents were referred to glwsf by area homeless shelters and free medical clinics.glwsf collected and recycled several thousand pairs of discarded glasses and hearing AIDS.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 75% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.4%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 61; 61st 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.4% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.