Itty Bitty Children's City
Legal name: Itty Bitty Childrens City
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832651485
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Alorton, Illinois, US
- Phone
- 618-250-9862
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,000
- Expenses
- $20,000
- Assets
- $30,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Williams (President)
- Elizabeth Johnson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Debra Williams (President)
- Elizabeth Johnson (Vice President)
- Angela McCorkle (Secretary)
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
To provide young children with equitable access to high-quality, play-based STEM learning experiences that build confidence, problem-solving skills, and a lifelong love of learning.
What it reported doing in 2025
Itty Bitty Children's City is situated in East St. Louis, Illinois. The city faces significant socio-economic challenges impacting its youth. The poverty rate in East St. Louis is much higher than the national average, with a child poverty rate of 48.1%, compared to the statewide rate of 15.9%. The city's population has declined, and nearly one-third of residents live in poverty, which is more than double the state's rate of about 12 percent. There is a recognized need for early childhood STEM education in the community, which aims to equip young children with critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills essential for thriving in a rapidly evolving digital environment. Early childhood STEM education establishes a foundation for future academic success and cultivates skills beneficial throughout children's lives. By introducing STEM concepts early, children can enhance their critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical abilities, which are important for achievement in STEM disciplines. Itty Bitty Children's City is committed to ensuring that every child, regardless of their background, is well-prepared for success in kindergarten, both academically, socially, and emotionally. The initiative aspires to build a base for equitable, resilient, and thriving communities where individuals have the opportunity to shape their futures. Itty Bitty Children's City is an educational program dedicated to providing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning opportunities for children. Each year, the program serves over 500 students from local schools and community centers, offering hands-on workshops and mentorship programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.