Vision for Chicago
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843615715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Berwyn, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3122881562
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $298,809
- Expenses
- $109,466
- Assets
- $254,322
- Liabilities
- $39,525
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMELIA MORAN (PRESIDENT AND PROGRAM COORDINATOR)
- DENNIS SIEMSEN (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMELIA MORAN (PRESIDENT AND PROGRAM COORDINATOR): $35,761 total reported compensation
- SUSAN RENTERIA (PROGRAM COORDINATOR): $6,658 total reported compensation
- RICHARD MORAN (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $5,246 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of vision for chicago is to provide access to quality eye care which will include vision screenings, exams and glassed as needed for the recently released or paroled populations in the south and west neighborhoods of chicago. Vision for chicago is committed to participating in the ongoing work in south and westside neighborhoods. By providing eye screenings, exams and glasses, to those who are recently released or paroled, vision for chicago hopes to contribute to the work of other organizations which focus on improving possibilities for life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Equitable access to vision care - vision for chicago offers vision care access to justice-impacted adults in chicago. Services offered eye exams, glasses, and medical referrals via partnerships with reentry centers and community groups, over 3,000 individuals have been assisted, with 600+ in the last year. Staff, some formerly incarcerated, promote trust and bring lived-experienced leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,536.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 63.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.5% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.