North Central IL ArtWorks Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272589661
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
LaSalle, IL, USA
Phone
8158665167
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,901
Expenses
$60,950
Assets
$86,912

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mark Brown (President)
  • Susan Gillio (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Tony Grunstad (Director)
  • Karen Bailey (Director)
  • Aseret Gonzalez Loveland (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of North Central Illinois ArtWorks is to inspire growth among artists through artistic collaboration, educational outreach, and art space development.The object of North Central Illinois ArtWorks is to promote quality professionalism and diversity in the arts in a positive manner. To create venues which support public and private education, community events, economic development and cultural tourism.

What it reported doing in 2025

The purpose of the North Central Illinois ArtWorks is based on three initiatives: Artistic Collaboration, Educational Outreach and Arts Space Development. To foster communication between artists, arts organizations, and arts educators through regional arts calendars, arts directories, round table discussions, seminars and workshops. To serve as a coordinating organization to promote artistic opportunities for students, schools and the community including the development of temporary and permanent facilities for artistic and cultural purposes.

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
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. 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: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 46

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 46.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.