Illinois Family Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371265883
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tinley Park, IL, United States
- Phone
- (708) 781-9328
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $765,273
- Expenses
- $754,703
- Assets
- $304,094
- Liabilities
- $6,594
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID SMITH (EXEC DIRECTOR): $136,600 total reported compensation
- CAESAR LEFLORE (FIELD DIRECTOR): $47,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educate with information and analysis on issues that affect the family and traditional values; inspire support for the pro-family agenda; and advocate through strategic alliances and networks for programs and policies consistent with its mission. EDUCATE:** Serving as a reliable source of information and analysis on issues that affect the family and traditional values INSPIRE:** Promoting the pro-family agenda in local councils, school boards, the media and Illinois General Assembly ADVOCATE:** Building strategic alliances and networks that promote programs and policies consistent with our mission. ADVOCATE:** Building strategic alliances and networks that promote programs and policies consistent with our mission _IFI Statement of Faith_.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educating & informing the public about issues impacting families in Illinois, through research, publications, social media, public forums and radio outreach.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $282.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $672K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.