The Kewanee Voice
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922492101
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kewanee, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3098839217
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $190,442
- Expenses
- $179,791
- Assets
- $107,560
- Liabilities
- $20,214
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- SHERRY WELCH (BOARD CHAIR)
- PAULA KAPACINSKAS (CO BOARD CHAIR)
- JESSE HUMPHREY (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
To provide news & information to enrich the lives of the people in the kewanee, Illinois area.
What it reported doing in 2025
Being a trusted source of information that is presented in afair & accurate manner through social media and internet.to promote events, recognize achievements, and report news that is useful and valuable to the readers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- 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: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $180K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.