Windy City Entertainment Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852188005
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
San Pedro, CA, USA
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,969
Expenses
$18,271
Assets
$20,252

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WINDY BARNES FARRELL (President and CEO)
  • SUNNY DAYE (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • WINDY BARNES FARRELL (President and CEO)
  • ROBERT FARRELL (TREASURER)
  • PAM VINCENT (SECRETARY)

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

Our mission at WindyCity Entertainment Inc. is to bring together diverse communities through the annual San Pedro Music Festival showcasing a variety of multi-disciplinary art forms including dance and visual art by both local and international artists. Through our programming we aim to inspire creativity celebrate diversity and promote a sense of unity within our community. Our vision is to offer workshops performances and educational resources with an aim to strengthen family bonds enhance communication and promote emotional well-being through the Heal My Family program.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025 the organization paused production of the Annual San Pedro Music Festival to focus on organizational development community outreach and long-term sustainability planning. Leadership concentrated efforts on strengthening relationships with local government representatives community organizations and potential supporters in order to expand awareness of the organizations mission of fostering community connection through music and cultural programming. The organization also devoted significant effort toward identifying grant opportunities and developing funding strategies intended to support future festival programming and related community events. While no festival activities were held during the year the organization remained active in planning outreach and capacity-building efforts designed to support future growth and continuation of its programs. These efforts helped establish a stronger operational foundation for the planned return of the San Pedro Music Festiv

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 50; 50th 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: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 79.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.