Open Arm Foundation Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260511705
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Calumet Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7736762466
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development - Business
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,000
- Expenses
- $74,500
- Assets
- $95,000
- Liabilities
- $219,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- BARBARA ANDREWS (BOARD MEMBER)
- IARY ISRAEL (BOARD MEMBER)
- TORRIA LLYOD (BOARD MEMBER)
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 open arm foundation provides sustainable living essentials to families and individuals facing financial hardship at no cost.
What it reported doing in 2025
The annual cost of the essential needs giveaways is 60,000 per year. It costs 5,000 per month to schedule and arrange the pickups; sort and catalog the product, and secure the product. Plus we have to secure a location for the giveaways. Is incorporated in this amount is the cost for labor, insurance, and transportation
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 81
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: 25.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.31; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.