Greater Chicagoland Fellowship

Analysis

Greater Chicagoland Fellowship is a registered charity in United States, based in West Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greater Chicagoland Fellowship reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.8m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.5m to $1.9m (-65%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Greater Chicagoland Fellowship sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sbarro Health Research Organization Inc ($1.9m), African American Health Institute ($1.9m) and Maryland New Directions Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $50k (2.8% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $780k against liabilities of $88k, net assets of $693k. It reported 2 employees.