Villapalooza Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473554135
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$101,087
Expenses
$24,803
Assets
$77,172

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jesus Contreras Jr (Board President)
  • Claudia Rangel (Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jesus Contreras Jr (Board President)
  • Zulema Reyna Silva (Board Treasurer)
  • Claudia Rangel (Board 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

Villapalooza Inc. is dedicated to promoting safe spaces for arts culture and community engagement. We strive to reframe the dominant narrative of Little Village through the development of multiple platforms to showcase local talent and preserve our neighborhoods cultural identity.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Villapalooza festival provides a unique space for visual craft performance and musical artists to display their talents and to create a diverse and unique experience that reflects and respects the culture of the community. Performance artists have access to performance space and a diverse audience. Visual and craft artists display and sell their work and provide workshops. Year round events bring the multidisciplinary elements of the festival to community spaces across Little Village.The 2025 Villapalooza Music and Arts Festival organized and hosted three free community pop-up events in collaboration with The Chicago Park District at Piotrowski Park on June 14th 2025, Shedd Park on July 12th 2025 and October 31st 2025. These events provided accessible arts music and cultural programming for Little Village residents of all ages. Approximately 800 community members attended and benefited from the Villapalooza Pop-Up Series across both park events. Participants included children,

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 25
  • 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: 75.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 89; 89th 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: -45.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.