Gildas Club Chicago

Analysis

Gildas Club Chicago is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Gildas Club Chicago reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $1.9m (+8.0%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gildas Club Chicago 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 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Khaleidoscope Health Care Inc ($1.9m), Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations Inc ($1.9m) and Breakthrough House Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $134k (6.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $992k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $129k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 17 employees.