The Friday Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
369204865
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3128892022
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,000
Expenses
$87,564
Assets
$105,599
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELISE MACKEVICH SALCHLI (PRESIDENT)
  • GABRIELA CLEVELAND (FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • ADRIANNE FURNISS (SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ELISE MACKEVICH SALCHLI (PRESIDENT)
  • GABRIELA CLEVELAND (FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • ADRIANNE FURNISS (SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT)

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

Promotion of literary and artistic culture

What it reported doing in 2025

Over 8 monthly programs, 80-100 members and guests hear from various speakers on literary, artistic, and cultural issues in chicago and the larger community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 17.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $88K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.