Great Lakes International Imaging & Flow Cytometry Associat
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161545169
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7735402414
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Research N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,825
- Expenses
- $47,754
- Assets
- $65,101
- 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
- David Leclerc (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Wallace (Treasurer)
- David Leclerc (President)
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
Form 990EZ - Organizations Mission: To foster the interaction of professionals with interest in flow cytometry and image cytometry; to promote research in new applications of image cytometry, flow cytometry in basic, medical, and related disciplines; and to foster education, training and the exchange of information among persons engaged in image cytometry and flow cytometry. Members exchange information by email, on-line, and this year during a 2 day educational meeting held annually. In 2025, we had 124 attendees at the meeting which was held in Chicago, IL on September 19-20 2025.
What it reported doing in 2025
Form 990EZ - Organizations Mission: To foster the interaction of professionals with interest in flow cytometry and image cytometry; to promote research in new applications of image cytometry, flow cytometry in basic, medical, and related disciplines; and to foster education, training and the exchange of information among persons engaged in image cytometry and flow cytometry. Members exchange information by email, on-line, and this year during a 2 day educational meeting held annually. In 2025, we had 124 attendees at the meeting which was held in Chicago, IL on September 19-20 2025. Form 990EZ - Other Revenue Meeting Income - Chicago, IL - 19-Sept 2025 to 20-Sept 2025 $ 51 825 Formz 990EZ- Other Expenses Meeting Expenses - Chicago, IL - 19-Sept 2025 to 20-Sept 2025 $ 47 372 Web hosting $ 256 Office Suppliers & Postage $ 126
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 56; 56th 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: -60.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -45.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.