Gorton Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200484607
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lake Forest, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8474454438
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,026,226
- Expenses
- $3,195,328
- Assets
- $11,930,879
- Liabilities
- $146,516
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
People named in this filing
- Will Georgi (Chair)
- Andrew Trees (Vice Chair)
- Tim Morris (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide, maintain, operate and manage a community center for charitable, educational and cultural purposes and for the general welfare of residents of all ages.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide office space for other non-profit organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.73; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.