Grundy County Heroes & Helpers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844480320
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Minooka, IL, USA
Phone
8152006957
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$83,814
Expenses
$81,217
Assets
$23,063

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WENDY BRILEY (President)
  • KATHERINE CABADA (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • WENDY BRILEY (President)
  • KATHERINE CABADA (Vice President)
  • SHARON RUSSELL (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization is comprised of law enforcement and first responder personnel, their families, and community volunteers who work together to enhance the lives of children and families in need across grundy county, Illinois. Gchh through fundraising activities will assist families that are experiencing loss, trauma, poverty, or hardships that are impacting their quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide support to children and families in grundy county, Illinois that are enduring loss, trauma, poverty, and hardships

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.