Mendel Alumni Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850990975
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Westchester, IL, USA
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alumni Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,286
- Expenses
- $40,852
- Assets
- $55,951
- Liabilities
- $1,101
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Gavin (President)
- John Mikenis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tom Gavin (President)
- Kelvin Lovely (Chairman)
- John Mikenis (Vice President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The specific and primary purpose for which the Association is formed, is to preserve the memory of Mendel Catholic College Preparatory High School, to advance the ties of friendship which unite the brotherhood of Mendel Monarchs, faculty, family and friends, and to support related charitable endeavors, including but not limited to the Augustinian order, Mendel Alumni and descendants of Mendel Alumni for purposes of scholarships or medical hardships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Veterans/1st Responders
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 26%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 26% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.