Temple Orisha Ile Ifa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844685136
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7082525597
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,609
- Expenses
- $51,081
- Assets
- $95,114
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICTOR GUZMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VICTOR GUZMAN (PRESIDENT)
- TOYA GUZMAN (SECRETARY)
- CELESTE GUZMAN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Temple Orisha Ile Ifa 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit committed to serving the spiritual and emotional needs of the community. We provide spiritual services including divination readings, ceremonial initiations, and community rituals. Rooted in our religious tradition, we strive to uplift individuals by offering guidance, healing, and spiritual insight. The Temple serves the spiritual and cultural needs of the community through divination and relate teachings rooted in indigenous and ancestral spiritual practices. The divination readings provided by the organization are not commercial services, but spiritual consultations rooted in religious practice. All fees ae considered mission-aligned program revenue and offerings are often accompanie by prayer, spiritual insight, and pastoral support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Holiday Gift Assistance for Children: In December 2024, our organization launched a Holiday Gift Assistance Program to serve underprivileged familiars and children experiencing hardship during the holiday season. Through internal benevolence funding, we purchased and disbursed Christmas gifts (including toys, books, and educational items) to children whose families were identified as facing economic challenges. The program served 27 families with 59 children ranging in age from newborn to teens. Referrals came from community leaders and temple volunteers who helped verify need and coordinate gift distribution respectfully and discreetly. This initiative aligns with our broader religious and charitable mission of uplifting the spiritual and emotion well-being of the community, especially during significant cultural and religious observances. The gifts not only met material needs but also restored a sense of dignity, joy, and hope to families during the holiday season.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.3%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.3% of revenue deployed · 11.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.