Wabash Lights Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475059316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6304003605
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,470
- Expenses
- $15,572
- Assets
- $8,232
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VINOD HAVALAD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIN CIGLIANA (SECRETARY)
- ERIC GANNON (BOARD OF DIR)
- JACK NEWELL (TREASURER/CO)
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
Visual arts
What it reported doing in 2025
To realize and maintain the wabash lights, a site-specific, interactive light installation on the underside of the wabash avenue elevated train tracks in chicago's loop.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.6%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.6% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.