Mena Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933617650
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7739713228
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,630
- Expenses
- $152,149
- Assets
- $30,588
- Liabilities
- $85,156
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAJWA ABUALI (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- NAJWA ABUALI (Executive Director)
- AMAL ASFUR (BOD)
- VERONICA SANCHEZ (BOD)
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
Educational.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through the Illinois Welcoming Center (IWC), MENA Community Center provided a one-stop access point for immigrants, refugees, and other vulnerable residents to connect with public benefits, social services, and community resources. In FY25, the program's goals were to help clients understand eligibility, complete applications, and overcome barriers to stability through case management, crisis intervention, and referrals to programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, and childcare. Services also included outreach, workshops, and interpretation to ensure language and cultural accessibility. Through IWC, we served around 1,000 individuals, advancing equity, self-sufficiency, and inclusion for immigrant, refugee and low-income families across Chicago's North and Northwest Sides.
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 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69
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: -27.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.78; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.