Insight Project for Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452802321
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3122132999
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,823
- Expenses
- $115,190
- Assets
- $1,545
- Liabilities
- $9,527
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darra (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Darra (Executive Director)
- Janet Green (Secretary)
- Jeanette Miller (Advisor)
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
Our mission is to teach stress management, self-regulation, and emotional mitigation skills to public school students, teachers, and parents in order to reduce stress, decrease violence, and increase the overall health and well-being of our youth and society.
What it reported doing in 2025
During our annual Angel Mamas Event, we provided grief counseling and de-stressing spa services to grieving mothers who have lost a child to gun violence in Chicago's at-risk neighborhoods. Mothers were able to gain resources and gain a sense of community and caring.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.9%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -49.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.17; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.9% of revenue deployed · 22.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.