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FAR SOUTH CDC

EIN 36-2946248 CHICAGO, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

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.

  • 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.

  • Abraham 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
  • Nikiesha 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
  • Chester Bell Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rev Leonardo Gilbert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Melvin Thompson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Maggie Catania

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kareem Musawwir

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Yolanda Richards-Albert

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Dennis O'Malley

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • John 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,074,175
    Expenses
    $3,596,934
    Contributions
    $4,550,426
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,082,779
    Expenses
    $4,508,395
    Contributions
    $4,789,898
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,803,263
    Expenses
    $3,236,035
    Contributions
    $4,510,382
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 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
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $13,382
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,694,787
    Expenses
    $2,032,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,303,074
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,691,162
    Expenses
    $1,461,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,530,156
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $6,086
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,486,491
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,748,745
    Expenses
    $1,596,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,169,383
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,373,199
    Expenses
    $1,421,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,753,136
  • 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

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

  • MORGAN PARK COMMONS

    C · REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT · IL · 100% owned · share of income $7

  • 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.