Ouilmette Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363233128
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wilmette, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7738172346
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,164
- Expenses
- $25,836
- Assets
- $313,363
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HOLLY GILSON (President)
People named in this filing
- HOLLY GILSON (President)
- JOHN FLANAGIN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to educate, enhance and enrich our parks and community life by supporting exceptional projects in collaboration with residents, community groups and partner organizations. The Ouilmette Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501 (c)3 organization established to receive charitable gifts and donations for the benefit of programs and facilities operated by the Wilmette Park District.
What it reported doing in 2025
To receive charitable gifts and donations for the benefit of programs and facilities operated by the Wilmette Park District.
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 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.8%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 78.5%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.13; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.8% of revenue deployed · 22.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.