Graphic Communications Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363206477
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Schiller Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129301900
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,841
- Expenses
- $8,539
- Assets
- $7,698
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHUCK SCHWARTZ (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHUCK SCHWARTZ (PRESIDENT)
- SHEILA MIEHLE (SECRETARY)
- RALPH CODER (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization provides a business forum for printing companies. Regular meetings are held to facilitate the exchange of ideas between business owners.
What it reported doing in 2014
A facilitation of ideas between business owners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2014
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.