Spotlight Air Environmental

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871507661
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Urbana, IL, USA
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,000
Expenses
$118,751
Assets
$171,983

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • CARLA NORWOOD (CHAIRPERSON)
  • DANIEL TWEDT (VICE CHAIR)
  • GAIL MILLER (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

Air quality watchdog organization

What it reported doing in 2025

Other program service: complaint reporting - weekly complaints to air quality-related agencies regarding facilities pollution-related activities. The number of reports: 76 152 if duplicates are included. The number of persons benefiting would be approximately 145,000 plus incidental beneficiaries. Expenses also include dedicated staffs contractors contributed hours. We also began recruiting volunteer neighborhood captains.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.6%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 72

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: 20.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 41.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.6% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.