John David Mooney Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363149885
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128220483
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,565
- Expenses
- $159,391
- Assets
- $403,668
- Liabilities
- $652,440
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN HAVEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUZETTE DEWEY (DIRECTOR)
- ALBERT GOODMAN (DIRECTOR)
- ANDREW GRIFFIN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To aid and assist in the development and promotion of artistic and educational activities through the dissemination of information, the funding and establishment of projects and student apprenticeships or any other method designed to promote and advance the development of art, sculpture, architecture and similar fine and applied arts and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to promote, encourage and assist in the training of artists for the development of art in the public domain.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation achieved its primary mission of creating accessible art experiences within the public domain, providing interdisciplinary, professional studio experiences and leadership training in the arts, and by bringing the very best international art and architecture to chicago. We assisted artists from ukraineby offering residency, stipends, and exhibitions of their work at the end of residency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 59.4%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.62; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 59.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.