Within Thin Lines
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871340028
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,162
- Expenses
- $96,948
- Assets
- $7,873
- Liabilities
- $35,303
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vincent Castaneda (President)
People named in this filing
- Vincent Castaneda (President)
- Amberle Castaneda (Treasurer)
- Tyler Frank (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide perseverance through communication and understanding; guidance through resources and education; and health advocacy through influence and coaching. The survivability of our First Responders and members of our Military Communities is our number one objective. And that survivability is succeeded by imperative training accredited education access to dependable gear supply and most importantly mental health resilience.
What it reported doing in 2025
We are a Veteran-owned First Responder operated training and education center organization accredited by CAPCE NAEMT Co-TECC American Heart Association American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and SOLOSCHOOLS to provide educational content and training events. We are respected for having the conversations nobody wants to have but need to have and the training that everyone is searching for. We are a not-for-profit educational organization and training center dedicated to protecting and serving the men and women of our Military First Responder and Public Service communities and their families through realistic training valuable education and peer understanding. Our currency is through your success in mental and physical survivability dependable gear supply and dedicated support. TCCC course -20 students served this year TECC course-18 students served this year This year we served less students than our first year but that doesnt mean our impact isnt felt beyond the classroom. Each of our students left more prepared for emergency situations especially our law enforment officers.Each student leaves and shares their success with their peers as well as us; and the mental resiliency we teach in classes will be felt amongst their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -15.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.48; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -19.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -52.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.