High 5 Heights Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333983472
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Palos Heights, IL, USA
Phone
7084242000
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Developmentally Disabled Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$334,583
Expenses
$59,475
Assets
$275,108
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KERRI PISCITELLI (PRESIDENT)
  • DUSTIN COCHRAN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KERRI PISCITELLI (PRESIDENT)
  • DUSTIN COCHRAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ALISON WILDE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide a qualified work center in palos heights, Illinois, for adult transition students with varying disabilities in community high school district 218 to serve as a real-world retail training site for students to learn how to own and operate a retail business.h5h will serve students with varying disabilities including any of those covered under the individuals with disabilities education act. The most prominent disabilities include emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, intellectual disability and multiple disabilities.

What it reported doing in 2025

High 5 heights inc. (h5h) work center: h5h operates a qualified work center in palos heights Illinois that is compliant with iii. Admin. Code tit. 44, sec. 1.4535 for community high school district 218. H5h provides students with varying disabilities the opportunity to grow into future retail business leaders, by honing their skills in a real-world environment which teaches students how to successfully own and operate a retail business and serve the communities they plan to operate in. There are 140 students in the adult transition program that participated in h5h in 2025. Additionally, 50-60 students rotated through shifts at h5h to train in stocking, inventory, packaging, customer service, designing, displays, marketing, sales, order fulfillments, operating machines for personalization, and pricing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 24
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12.6%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 50.7%; rating input score 51
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 82.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12.6% of revenue deployed · 50.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.