Izaak Walton League

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 366110182
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location: Des Plaines, IL, USA
Phone: 8473314509
Rating: 48
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue: $25,022
Expenses: $55,155
Assets: $69,950
Liabilities: $378

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JOE HYLAND (President & CEO)
JOE GALLO (Vice President)

People named in this filing

JOE HYLAND (President & CEO)
JOE GALLO (Vice President)
AMY TOOKEY (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

Conservation and education

What it reported doing in 2025

Riverbank cleanup, tea & history sessions, scout campfires and outdoor meetings. Duck and owl box maintenance. River water monitoring.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 program spending 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: 18
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 29
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 23.1%; rating input score 23
Program expense ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 10

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -120.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 23.1% of revenue deployed · 10.5% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 23/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.