Gigi's Playhouse Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462014837
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
Phone
8478857529
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,286,836
Expenses
$16,762,841
Assets
$30,143,131
Liabilities
$11,356,294

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

600 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SARAH BROWN - ANN (PRESIDENT - PART YEAR)
  • JENNIFER WINSLOW - ANN (PRESIDENT)
  • DANI HIGLEY - ATL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MILES KNIGHT - ATL (PRESIDENT)
  • MARC JAROMIN - BUF (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • WILL MONDSCHEIN - BUF (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • NANCY GIANNI (PRESIDENT): $200,673 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER BEHRENS (CEO - STARTING 09/2024): $51,349 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To increase positive awareness of down syndrome through national campaigns, educational programs, and by empowering individuals with down syndrome, their families, and the community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Gigi's offers free on-site programming and events for individuals with down syndrome of all ages, and their families. From infancy through adulthood, gigi's offers a variety of group classes and events supporting the development of foundational social, emotional, and physical skills. Gigi prep, gigi university, gigi's kitchen, and gigi fit are progressive education programs for young adults focusing on curriculum in self confidence, fitness, nutrition and career skills. After graduating from gigi prep & gigi university and receiving 12 weeks of individualized hands-on career training, gigi's provides an in-house career training program at hugs & mugs, a specialty cafe and retail store run by adult interns with down syndrome. Gigi's playhouse also provides support for families and siblings of those with down syndrome.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 473 of 473 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $14.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $201K · 600 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 56 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.