- Revenue 2025
- $5,074,175
- Expenses 2025
- $3,596,934
Program services were 55.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S31Z
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 853 W 115TH ST
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).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Through planning and collaboration with private developers, governmental entities and other stake-holders, the Far-South Community Development Corporation (Far South CDC)strives to facilitate and foster quality retail businesses that will meet the needs of the community, new industrial uses, and new rehabilitated commercial and residential real estate developments that will create jobs and improve the quality of life for all people who live and work in its service area.
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Far South CDC's strives to facilitate and foster quality retail businesses that will meet the needs of the community; through planning and collaboration with private developers, governmental entities and other stake-holders, new industrial uses, and new rehabilitated commercial and residential real estate developments that will create jobs and improve the quality of life for all people who live and work in its service area.In 2022, Far South CDC started to move from business development and housing programs to redevelopment of land and abandoned properties to create affordable housing and access to affordable retail spaces for developing enterprises. The Halsted Street Mall footprint at the corner of 115th Street and Halsted has been in planning and demo for the last three (3) years with Far South CDC developing the land to include affordable housing and retail space.
Expenses $1,992,018 · Revenue $5,074,175
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Abraham LacyABRAHAM LACY
PRESIDENT/E.D.
- Total calculated
- $201,247
- From this org
- $201,247
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $201,247
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $201,247
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Nikiesha EmeryNIKIESHA EMERY
COO
- Total calculated
- $158,208
- From this org
- $158,208
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $158,208
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $158,208
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Chester Bell JrCHESTER BELL JR
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Rev Leonardo GilbertREV LEONARDO GILBERT
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Melvin ThompsonMELVIN THOMPSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Maggie CataniaMAGGIE CATANIA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kareem MusawwirKAREEM MUSAWWIR
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Yolanda Richards-AlbertYOLANDA RICHARDS-ALBERT
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Dennis O'MalleyDENNIS O'MALLEY
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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John ChenierJOHN CHENIER
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $5,074,175
- Expenses
- $3,596,934
- Contributions
- $4,550,426
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,082,779
- Expenses
- $4,508,395
- Contributions
- $4,789,898
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $4,803,263
- Expenses
- $3,236,035
- Contributions
- $4,510,382
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,749,870
- Expenses
- $3,210,799
- Contributions
- $2,778,943
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $13,313
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $13,382
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $3,221,500
- Expenses
- $3,488,681
- Contributions
- $3,165,186
- Grants paid
- $0
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,694,787
- Expenses
- $2,032,945
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,303,074
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,691,162
- Expenses
- $1,461,971
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,530,156
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $6,086
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,486,491
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,748,745
- Expenses
- $1,596,084
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,169,383
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,373,199
- Expenses
- $1,421,274
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,753,136
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2010 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $464,262
- Assets (EOY)
- $696,461
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.
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
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$500,000
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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$100,000
2022 Supporting General Operations of neighborhood organization that facilitates and promotes neighborhood investment work in their community, from the Searle funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
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$100,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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$85,000
2023 Homeownership Financing Solutions
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2024 PARTICIPATION IN STELLAR EV WORKING GROUP TRAININGS, PARTICIPATION IN CMAP CARE PROGRAM, BUS RAPID TRANSIT ENGAGEMENT WORK
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2022 SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
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2024 SEE PART IV
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$10,250
2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
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 corporations and trusts on its 2025 return
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MORGAN PARK COMMONS
C · REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT · IL · 100% owned · share of income $7
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MAPLE PARK HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT LLC
C · REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT · IL · 100% owned · share of assets $2
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 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.