Global Midwest Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463074458
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8888080462
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,500
- Expenses
- $178,976
- Assets
- $165,446
- Liabilities
- $1,054
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GAIL LONGMORE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GAIL LONGMORE (PRESIDENT)
- DON AGEE (TREASURER)
- CHRISTOPHER BLAYLOCK (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Leveraging existing resources to develop new products and find customers throughout the world. The alliance is the private sector liaison office for the world bank and a member of global connect. Through these and other affiliations, the alliance facilitates access to global business opportunities for midwest business. The alliance offers educational and networking opportunities through a variety of programs and resources designed to promote innovation, technology development and access to global opportunities in the clean technology, energy, food, logistics, manufacturing and water industries.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other services, including providing services as a private sector liaison office for the world bank and other international development banks; facilitating to access to global business opportunities, programs and resources for midwest businesses; encouraging and promoting educational and networking opportunities designed to promote innovation, technology development, and access to global opportunities in the clean technology, energy, food, logistics, manufacturing and water industries; and assisting businesses to grow by leveraging existing resources to develop new products and find customers throughout the world; and other services designed to transform the midwest into an internationally recognized leader in innovation and business growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -984.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $179K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.