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ALAIN LOCKE CHARTER SCHOOL

EIN 36-4182397 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$7,150,639
Expenses 2024
$7,572,904

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
2000
Street
150 N MICHIGAN AVE STE 2100

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

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

This address is a suite or unit (STE 2100). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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 · 2024

Mission

Alain Locke Charter School serves as a demonstration for urban schools exemplifying excellence in academics, the arts, personal and social development, and preparing students who are globally competitive. One of Chicago's first public, open enrollment charter schools, Alain Locke Charter School is one of the most successful urban charter schools in the United States. Located in the heart of Chicago's West Side, Alain Locke Charter School serves students in grades Pre-K through 8. The Charter School is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerate Institute.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Alain Locke Charter School is devoted to the betterment of urban children by improving education through identifying, improving, and implementing the best practices in education.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $7,294,281 · Grants $23,500 · Revenue $4,321

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Catherine Burns

    Chair / Director

    Total calculated
    $253,878
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $234,328
    Other
    $19,550
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $233,828 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $500 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,030 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $12,520 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $253,878 related
  • Claire Hartfield

    Vice Chair/Director

    Total calculated
    $48,625
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $48,625
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15 + 1 related
  • Nora Ligurotis

    Vice Chair/Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carla Black

    Director (Begin 10/7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Palos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John McLaughlin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nosa Ehimwenman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick G Ryan Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Robert Horne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shabree Todd

    Director & Parent Rep.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Perlman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dawn Moore

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Erin Gilmore

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $147,532
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $131,430
    Other
    $16,102
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related
  • Judy McGarvey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related
  • Patrick Love

    Principal

    Total calculated
    $238,691
    From this org
    $188,662
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,029
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,662
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $37,509
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,520
    Filer's total
    $238,691
  • Eboni Harris

    Case Manager

    Total calculated
    $133,410
    From this org
    $101,852
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,558
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jennifer Mitch

    Instructor

    Total calculated
    $155,720
    From this org
    $121,832
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,888
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $121,832
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $24,051
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,837
    Filer's total
    $155,720
  • Vonyell Foster

    Dean of Students

    Total calculated
    $127,813
    From this org
    $114,540
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,273
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,150,639
    Expenses
    $7,572,904
    Contributions
    $7,003,663
    Grants paid
    $23,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,071,980
    Expenses
    $6,672,801
    Contributions
    $7,011,464
    Grants paid
    $19,600
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,573,932
    Expenses
    $6,493,832
    Contributions
    $6,532,230
    Grants paid
    $31,200

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
    $7,260,033
    Expenses
    $6,619,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,862,579
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,313,577
    Expenses
    $5,896,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,465,097
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,958,108
    Expenses
    $5,663,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,163,026
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,738,734
    Expenses
    $5,697,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,912,871
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,466,281
    Expenses
    $6,092,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,963,241
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,596,762
    Expenses
    $5,454,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,494,714
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,619,279
    Expenses
    $5,228,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,401,617
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,462,252
    Expenses
    $5,333,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,007,489
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,259,523
    Expenses
    $5,092,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,871,223
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,902,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,666,577

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.