Love West Ridge Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991131942
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
8475010486
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$142,907
Expenses
$115,955
Assets
$111,436
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Herning (President/Lead Pastor)
  • Rand Tucker (Vice-president)

People named in this filing

  • Christopher Herning (President/Lead Pastor)
  • Rand Tucker (Vice-president)
  • Susan Chaney (Co-treasurer)

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

We are a church with a large service arm. The service projects are aimed at serving the needs in our community(50th ward of Chicago/West Ridge). Our aim is to follow the greatest two commandments listed in Matthew 22: 37-39: to love God with all of our hearts, souls, and minds; and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We exist to be ambassadors of reconciliation: helping to reconcile polarized groups of people to each other and to God. (2 Corinthians 5:19)

What it reported doing in 2024

Gatherings: This year Love West Ridge hosted 12 gatherings. The purpose of the gatherings is to bring together people who are often polarized: Jews & Muslims & Christians, rich and poor. There is no agenda other than to expose people to one another, as humans, and share a meal. The meals incur most of the cost for this program, as we provide dinner for the group replete with halal and kosher options. At these meals we typically have an ice breaker and ask 3 or so questions to the group. The questions are tailored to stimulate conversation and to find common ground. Over time the goal is to build uncommon frienships--which will have ripples for how the diverse groups that make up West Ridge view each other. One of this year's. most stunning accomplishments was that we had an Orthodox woman host the gathering at her home. She welcomed in among the guests, muslims. One of these particiapants had never been around anyone outside their Daci people group. 52 distinct participants have particpated at gatherings over the course of the year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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 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: 28
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.5%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 30.6%; rating input score 31

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: 18.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 175.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 178.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.5% of revenue deployed · 30.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 26/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.