Greater Chicago Cage Bird Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363688706
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Villa Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6306404924
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,680
- Expenses
- $157,696
- Assets
- $180,770
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Dulski (President)
People named in this filing
- Sandra Henrickson (Secretary)
- Laura Linzemann (Vice Presideny)
- Robert Dulski (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
GCCBS provides care and shelter for 150 non native exotic birds. This includes parakeets finches lovebirds concures cockatiels parrots macaws cockatoos. The birds are surrendered to us by families animal control police and fire departments or found outside. Each bird receives infectious disease testing vet visit including blood testing a clean cage with toys and a diet including fresh fruit and vegetables highg quality seed and pellets. We also provide social interaction to meet their needs. The shelter currently has 150 birds. We are at capacity. We adopt around 85 birds this year and received 95 surrenders. For every surrender 6 are turned away. We follow the Avian Weelfare Coalitin adoption guidelines.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide infectious disease & baseline chem, hem testing on all birds within the shelter. Vet visists are monthly unless a bird shows signs of illnes. Radiology may be required to further diagnose the bird especially with ol der birds to determine heart & kidney disease.We have been receiving birds who are older or not have been taken to a vet. Hospitalization and medications is provided as required for treatment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.3% of revenue deployed · 56.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.