Shorewood HUGS
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262862346
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Shorewood, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8155243325
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,673
- Expenses
- $98,676
- Assets
- $69,268
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nadine Baxter (President)
- Ashley Shulman (Vice President)
- Molly Babyak (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Nadine Baxter (President)
- Ashley Shulman (Vice President)
- Karen Garifo (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide aid to children, families, individuals and programs in our community and the surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Or disability strikes, HUGS steps in to help through our Hugs and Wishes program. For the fiscal year 2024-2025 we granted approximately 60 wishes. Our wishes are sponsored through our many fundraisers throughout the year, the largest being our annual Chocolate Ball, which was held February 2025. We were also supported the community and local humane society with our Hugs for Hounds Doggie Easter Egg Hunt to support the Will County Humane Society, making a generous $2,000 donation. We participated in and supported a number of Joliet Chamber and Plainfield/Shorewood Chamber events, participated in and raised over $2,000 for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, supported the Troy Public Library Summer Reading Program, supported the Council of Working Women, Team Make a Difference, Kindness Gala Foundation, to name a few. Members volunteered for Northern Illinois Food Bank food distribution. We also provided Christmas meals and gifts to the families at Lambs Fold, as well as providing gifts and lunch favors to the Troy Seniors at their annual Christmas party and supported the Shorewood shop with a Cop program. We supported Morningstar Mission with our annual food drive and monetary donation. We continue to work throughout the year to spread our message and to add a HUG to the many people who find themselves at the most difficult moments of their lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
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: -19.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.