Just Cause Create Joy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881824333
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Plainfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6306896300
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,502
- Expenses
- $103,146
- Assets
- $103,152
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vanessa Mussatto (Executive Director)
- Judy Ray (President)
- Mary Ihle (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Vanessa Mussatto (Executive Director)
- Judy Ray (President)
- Carla Caputo-Cooper (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create joy through small acts of kindness where each small act of kindness will be a charitable donation to children, elderly in nursing homes and charitable
What it reported doing in 2024
Comfort and Joy Program - 432 underprivileged childrenreceived large bags of gifts for the holiday. They received clothing, undergarments, books, toys and personal care items.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.1%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 61.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.1% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.