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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CHICAGO VOTES.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,183,890
Total expenses
$1,474,482
Contributions and grants received
$1,138,201
Grants paid
$87,871
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$143
Other revenue
$45,546
Total assets, end of year
$949,525
Total liabilities, end of year
$48,676
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$900,849
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$835,132
Management and general expenses
$639,350
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$835,132

Program services were 56.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,138,201

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $143 · excluded $143

  • 11a · Other revenue: Payroll/rent reimburse

    total $45,546 · related or exempt $45,546

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $45,546

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $87,871 · program services $87,871

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $373,321 · program services $36,573 · management and general $336,748

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $536,528 · program services $461,015 · management and general $75,513

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $18,243 · program services $18,243

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $59,010 · program services $50,855 · management and general $8,155

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $70,928 · program services $44,557 · management and general $26,371

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $11,978 · management and general $11,978

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $150,659 · program services $86,556 · management and general $64,103

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $41,951 · program services $17,614 · management and general $24,337

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $61,479 · program services $185 · management and general $61,294

  • 17 · Travel

    total $45,155 · program services $29,936 · management and general $15,219

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,399 · program services $45 · management and general $9,354

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $7,960 · program services $1,682 · management and general $6,278

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,056,756 · end of year $797,002

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $102,861 · end of year $103,004

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $128,387 · end of year $49,519

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $50 · end of year $5,792

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $96,513 · end of year $42,884

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,191,441 · end of year $900,849

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government, through civic education, to young people from all corners of the city. We're creating a civic culture to make Chicago and Illinois a better place to be young, and in the process we're making democracy FUN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Leadership development and non partisan civic education.

  • Youth Leadership Development - Youth organizers were trained through internship and fellowship programs. These organizers registered voters and mobilized volunteers.

    Expenses $835,132 · Grants $87,871

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Troy Alim

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Zana Marino

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rebecca Petzel

    Treasurer - TERM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Jorge Arteaga

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Caleb Dunson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Anne Olson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Abby Pucker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Evie Thompson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Bernie Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Jennifer Dean

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $173,474
    From this org
    $154,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,099
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,263
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,836
    Filer's total
    $173,474

  • Steven Valles

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $199,847
    From this org
    $179,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,472
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,763
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,709
    Filer's total
    $199,847

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

  • World Organizing Institute

    $50,000

    General operating support for the No Borders civic-education and leadership initiative

  • MUD Theatre Project

    $11,000

    Civics in Prison subgrant supporting peer-educator training and civic-education programming inside Illinois prisons, September-December 2025

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
2 September 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202622459349301147

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