The Do Great Things Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874323936
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Clarendon Hills, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6303527173
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,578
- Expenses
- $37,002
- Assets
- $7,704
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRACY RYAN (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- JAMES RYAN (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- TRACY RYAN (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- JAMES RYAN (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- BRIAN KRENKE (SECRETARY & 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
The do great things initiative, inc. (the "initiative") will conduct activities for the students at green bay west high school ("west high") to help those students plan for their future, become college-ready, and fund the cost of college.the initiative will partner with the staff and faculty at west high to develop a student success program that will impact every student at west high. The logo for the initiative will be present on all signs, posters and flyers for all events and activities to link all programming to the initiative. The initiative's goal is for the program to become a fabric of the daily life of west high students, where post-secondary education is not for an elite group of students, but attainable for every student who is willing to work hard to achieve that goal.all activities conducted by the initiative will help achieve one of three goals for the students atwest high: 1. Plan for your future; 2. Become college-ready; and 3. Finding funding for college.
What it reported doing in 2024
To meet the initiative's first goal of helping students plan for their future, the initiative will fund events that will be run by the staff at west high. The initiative expects to spend approximately 30% of its time and budget on activities focused on boosting student's belief in themselves, helping them set career and personal goals and motivating them to work hard in high school to lead to admittance into the college of their choice. These events include: summer sessions for incoming freshmanplanning workshops
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
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
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: -89%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 17; 17th 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: 73.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.