Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362487600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Oak Brook, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6308331616
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $662,425
- Expenses
- $612,785
- Assets
- $4,817,257
- Liabilities
- $31,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOROTHY ASHER (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- DR KYLE BRILL (EXECUTIVE DI): $104,652 total reported compensation
- DOROTHY ASHER (PRESIDENT &): $41,577 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lizzadro museum of lapidary art's primary exempt purpose is to operate a museum of art for the collection, care, study, and exhibition of precious and non-precious gems, ceramics, and other objects of art, and the education of the public with reference to the museum's art collection, which consists of gemstones, dioramas, jade carvings, and various rock, minerals, and fossil specimens.
What it reported doing in 2025
The promotion of the lapidary art through special programs on the history and makeup of the museum. Over 72,415 children and adults visited the museum this year on site or through external or virtual programming. Every wednesday is free admission. The museum collaborates with community organizations to provide cultural and educational programs for the public. The museum displayed 3 temporary special exhibits: the first: synergy and symbiosis featured 12 collaborative jewelry creations by paula crevoshay and glenn lehrer from november 2, 2024 to april 27, 2025. Fan favorites was an exhibition of patron selected items from the museum's collection, open from may 10, 2025 to august 31, 2025. The hidden gems of cellphones explored the minerals which make up the different parts of mobile devices and included pieces on loan from the smithsonian institution's national museum of natural history. It was on display from october 19, 2025 to may 24, 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.86; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $512K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.