Heaven Gallery

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364248117
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3125022230
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,744
Expenses
$156,026
Assets
$13,145
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alma Wieser (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Alma Wieser (Executive Director)
  • Jennifer Kempf (Assistant)
  • Teresa Silva (Board Member)

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

Heaven Gallery is a multi-disciplinary healing art space that provides holistic programming to elevate artists and connect Chicago communities. The gallery hosts art exhibitions, artist talks, House Music dance events, and classical concerts all serving an intergenerational audience. Using a commerce to culture model the gallery has a vintage shop that creates a revenue stream to sustain programming and engage the general public.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 Heaven Gallery hosted 62 events and 30,000 people visited the gallery. The organization presented 10 exhibitions and paid 59 artists. Its mentorship program served 18 emerging arts leaders on how to use innovative retail models to sustain culture.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 7
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.7%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 7

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.7% of revenue deployed · 6.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.