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The First Spoke Foundation

EIN 20-0894628 Chicago, IL

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Revenue 2022
$2,372,693
Expenses 2022
$3,316,894

Program services were 99.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
30 South Wells Street 4049

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

46 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The Foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational, and/or religious purpose of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Foundation as authorized in their by-laws.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purposes of, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Foundation as authorized in their by-laws.

  • The Foundation makes grants to charitable organizations, all of which meet the guidelines of the by-laws of the Foundation and the charter of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. All of these organizations are exempt under IRC Section 501(c)(3).

    Expenses $3,304,997 · Grants $3,304,997

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lonnie Nasatir

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $509,143
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $471,072
    Other
    $38,071
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 49.7 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $443,375 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $27,697 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,897 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,142 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $510,111 related

  • Michael J Krasny

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Wendy Berger Shapiro

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Boaz Blumovitz

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $380,050
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $349,809
    Other
    $30,241
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 49.7 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $349,252 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $557 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $30,241 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $776 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $380,826 related

  • James A Pinkston

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $343,199
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $301,042
    Other
    $42,157
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 49.7 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $300,875 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $167 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $25,803 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,319 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $344,164 related

  • Rose Jagust

    Assistant Secretary

    Total calculated
    $271,920
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $205,496
    Other
    $66,424
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 49.7 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $200,468 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $5,028 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $54,884 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $12,181 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $272,561 related

  • Adam Levine

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,372,693
    Expenses
    $3,316,894
    Contributions
    $2,321,000
    Grants paid
    $3,304,997

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,480,404
    Expenses
    $12,896,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,771,209

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,668
    Expenses
    $4,462,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,124,413

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $816,273
    Expenses
    $4,627,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,394,193

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $729,091
    Expenses
    $1,336,924
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,161,369

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,582,960
    Expenses
    $1,169,587
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,234,241

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,759
    Expenses
    $580,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,035,797

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $291,323
    Expenses
    $904,756
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,628,282

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $887,625
    Expenses
    $1,547,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,524,953

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,037
    Expenses
    $463,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,968,551

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $188,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,130,124

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

Declared as related by

The most recent declarers. The API serves every row.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2022 return

  • 255 Revere Drive LP

    N/A · Real Estate · IL

  • JFMC Pooled Endowment Portfolio LLC

    N/A · See Sch. R, Part VII · IL

Related corporations and trusts on its 2022 return

  • Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (19)

    T · Charitable Trust · IL · controlled entity

  • Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts (3)

    T · Charitable Trust · IL · controlled entity

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.