Preamble Initiatives
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993534692
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7153708348
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,330
- Expenses
- $6,849
- Assets
- $87,772
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Isaac Green (President)
People named in this filing
- Isaac Green (President)
- Rebecca Green (Secretary, Treasurer)
- Dillon Sharp (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
Preamble Initiatives is organized to provide charitable, educational, and research services which advance societal wellbeing. This includes the support of projects aligned with the IRS definition of "charitable" purposes, including projects designed to: provide relief to the poor, the distressed, and the underprivileged; lessen the burdens of government; lessen neighborhood tensions; eliminate prejudice and discrimination; defend human and civil rights secured by law; and combat community deterioration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Preamble worked with the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) in 2025 to audit CDPH emergency legal response practices. Working with the Office of the General Counsel for CDPH, Preamble authored an Emergency Law Toolkit and Medical Records Toolkit for CDPH which delineate the processes that should be followed when responding to emergencies and medical records requests in order to facilitate better service to the public by CDPH and to help ensure legal compliance by CDPH in doing so. Preamble also conducted an audit of CDPH internal policies and protocols process and provided advice to CDPH on updating the process to better align with CDPH goals. Finally, Preamble authored a new Digital Communications (TCPA) Policy for CDPH medical clinics to provide more clear guidance on TCPA compliant patient communication practices. Preamble was paid by CDPH for this work, as is reflected in the program service revenue line of this filing. Specific numbers of persons benefitted by this type of work are hard to calculate, but CDPH serves the entire Chicago area, and programs like this are designed to improve the quality of that service. All of the time required for this project was donated by Preamble's Executive Director, Becca Green.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 100
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.1%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 58.8%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 91.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.82; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.1% of revenue deployed · 58.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.