Impact Chicago Self Defense
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363526682
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129717119
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,687
- Expenses
- $56,029
- Assets
- $64,508
- 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
- Deb Mier (Board Co-President and Workshop Instructor)
- Denise Lewin Loyd (Board Co-President)
People named in this filing
- Deb Mier (Board Co-President and Workshop Instructor)
- Denise Lewin Loyd (Board Co-President)
- Katie Skibbe (Board Treasurer and Instructor)
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
Provide self-defense education
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide experience-based self-defense education for approximately 250 women during the calendar year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.