Outlaw A
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475411959
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124790674
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000
- Assets
- $144,408
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM SAMUELSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TIM SAMUELSON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
"outlaw a" has been created as an educational interactive archive of books, documents, photographs, artifacts and other materials relating to history, art, architecture, design, technology, and other topic areas. Its mission is to provide original materials to interested individuals and organizations with a greater degree of access and flexibility than is typically provided by traditional museums, libraries and archives. Most established museums, libraries and archives maintain strict controls over the accessibility, lending and duplication of their materials, putting valuable educational resources out-of-reach for many schools, public institutions and interested individuals. Believing that "hands on" accessibility to original historical materials is a highly-effective way to share and spread vital ideas and information, "outlaw a" is devoted to making its materials as accessible as possible. Because this approach is so unconventional, the name "outlaw a" is short for "outlaw archive".
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -53.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: Filed program service accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.