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THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS INC

EIN 36-2968329 WHEATON, IL

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Revenue 2024
$1,053,100
Expenses 2024
$1,053,131

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F61Z
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 46

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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 3123), covering 494 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To offer support to families grieving the death of a child of any age, from any cause.

  • Through a network of over 500 chapters with locations in all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, The Compassionate Friends (TCF) has been providing support to bereaved families after the death of a child for five decades. TCF offers 40 Facebook based online groups and online chat groups in addition to the in-person and virtual support groups offered across the United States. We also offer an annual national conference each summer.

    Expenses $850,344 · Revenue $170,586

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Chris Lourenco

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dennis Gravelle

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patricia Scherer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Lane

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ann Walsh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Dieterle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Donna Goodrich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ghislaine Thomsen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jody Pupecki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura Trinkle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pamela Hagens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steve Parker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zander Sprague

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shari O'Loughlin

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $188,552
    From this org
    $164,732
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,820
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,732
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,589
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,231
    Filer's total
    $188,552

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
    $1,053,100
    Expenses
    $1,053,131
    Contributions
    $876,975
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,049,832
    Expenses
    $1,040,866
    Contributions
    $858,684
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,083,291
    Expenses
    $1,045,080
    Contributions
    $791,650
    Grants paid
    $5,817

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
    $939,318
    Expenses
    $624,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $574,320

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $672,717
    Expenses
    $618,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,127

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,356
    Expenses
    $949,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,241

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,022,585
    Expenses
    $1,008,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,392

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $993,146
    Expenses
    $1,005,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $236,183

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $989,830
    Expenses
    $1,128,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,257

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,022,908
    Expenses
    $1,413,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $406,681

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,499,833
    Expenses
    $1,126,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $772,155

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $944,199
    Expenses
    $1,008,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $404,065

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $996,609
    Expenses
    $1,147,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $444,333

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Not named on the postcard
Mailing address
PO BOX 3696OAK BROOK IL 605223696
Website
WWW.COMPASSIONATEFRIENDS.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility GROUP.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.