Skinner School Forum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363490221
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125549974
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,007
- Expenses
- $49,599
- Assets
- $112,775
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOEY LYNN PINAGLIA (PRESIDENT)
- NELL STRONG (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOEY LYNN PINAGLIA (PRESIDENT)
- NELL STRONG (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE MAJCA (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
The skinner school forum (the "forum") was formed in 1994 with a mission to provide both monetary and parent-power volunteer support to skinner west elementary school in chicago, Illinois. Over the years, the forum has successfully filled the school's funding gap by implementing numerous school activities, outreach efforts, and fundraising programs to provide art, music, and drama programs, field trips, classroom supplies, textbooks, school maintenance equipment and supplies, support for various sporting teams and activities, teacher appreciation week, and support for teacher development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raising and distributing funds for the benefit of skinner west elementary school in chicago, Illinois
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.