Tom Hopkins Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841920449
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- 7735517690
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $190,400
- Expenses
- $169,747
- Assets
- $175,597
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marge Hopkins (Executive Director)
- Liam Hopkins (President)
People named in this filing
- Marge Hopkins (Executive Director)
- Liam Hopkins (President)
- Tommy Hopkins (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 Tom Hopkins Foundation was established in honor of Tom Hopkins, a man with a big heart who always helped others. The foundation supports local families affected by cancer and provides support to local youth athletics.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide Financial Assistance to Non-Profit-Organizations supporting athletic programs for over four thousand childrenin the southwest side of Chicago
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.1%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 32.7%; rating input score 33
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 29.1% of revenue deployed · 32.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.