DuPage Foundation
Legal name: The Dupage Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363978733
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Downers Grove, IL, USA
- Phone
- 630.665.5556
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,326,685
- Expenses
- $20,623,260
- Assets
- $161,796,382
- Liabilities
- $34,206,801
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MR MICHAEL SITRICK (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MR MICHAEL SITRICK (PRESIDENT & CEO): $241,434 total reported compensation
- MR DAVID WEISZ (VP FOR FINANCE): $142,790 total reported compensation
- MS BARBARA SZCZEPANIAK (VP FOR PROGRAMS): $138,279 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To foster philanthropy, connect donors to area needs, and build community partnerships. The DuPage Community Foundation, d/b/a DuPage Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. News & Stories Contact Us. We are pleased to announce that we awarded $1.3 million to DuPage County nonprofit organizations as part of our Spring Community Impact grant program. Grants were awarded to 71 organizations in the health and human services sector—supporting mental health services,... read more Grantee Spotlight: Youth Arts Education.
What it reported doing in 2024
To make charitable grants and provide assistance to not-for-profit organizations primarily for the benefit of those living in dupage county and to connect donors to organizations. Special areas of focus include early childhood education and arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.6%; rating input score 96; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.85; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 29 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $398K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 245 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 241 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.