Glad Academy Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923525311
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6308032086
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,426
- Expenses
- $27,029
- Assets
- $2,630
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nina Zhan (President)
People named in this filing
- Nina Zhan (President)
- Steven Liang (Treasurer and Human Resources Manager)
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
GLAD Academy made charitable contributions to support humanitarian, educational, and civil rights initiatives in alignment with its mission. It donated $15,050 to international organizations, including UNICEF, supporting programs that provide children in underserved regions with access to healthcare, education, and emergency assistance, benefiting thousands indirectly. It also contributed $3,000 to local schools, including Kennedy Junior High, Meadow Glens Elementary School, and Madison Junior High School, to enhance educational resources, student enrichment, and community-based learning, benefiting students and school communities. We donated $2,000 to nonprofit organizations such as the National Black Justice Coalition, Girls Forward, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, and the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, supporting efforts in cultural equity, disability inclusion, gender equity, and civil rights through advocacy, legal services, and inclusive education initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2023, our organization did not receive any revenue, so our reported revenue will be zero. Our core mission is to facilitate peer-to-peer education for children around the world. Our first program focuses on peer-to-peer language learning. We operated for four months, from July to September, primarily building the infrastructure for full operation in 2024. We refined our values, mission, and goals to guide us in our operations. We also developed our website, which is now live at gladacademy.org. We recruited our first group of volunteers and provided training for the young teachers. We ran some test classes and ensured that class procedures are in place. We developed our community guidelines and tested our IT environment, which worked well for different class sizes. We also created some standard course materials. We have full confidence that we will successfully run a non-profit program that will benefit hundreds of students and young tutors around the world. For more information about our program, please visit our website at gladacademy.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -64.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 87.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th 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 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.