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RECORD COMMUNITY NEWS GROUP

EIN 85-1425791 LOMBARD, IL

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Revenue 2024
$298,634
Expenses 2024
$235,457

Program services were 57.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1000
Street
120 E CENTRAL AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

As its primary and most fundamental activity, The Record Community News henceforth The Record produces, publishes and distributes hyperlocal, independent news and information via a news site, emailed newsletter and audio recordings or podcasts. The Record reports information that is educational to the residents of the North Shore of Chicago - a suburban area north of the city limits and along Lake Michigan's shoreline - and operates in a manner consistent with tax-exempt status under section 501c3.

  • The Record publishes content that educates the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community, as the Treasury Regulations stipulate. This work, which as of now takes up 75 percent of The Record's funding and resources, contributes to the public's knowledge on core issues and information that affect their day-to-day lives and their financial and emotional investments. The Record's work creates a more engaged and informed public. The Record covers a diverse range of topics that is relevant to suburban Chicago residents, such as local and regional government, local schools, public health and safety, local athletics and entertainment, business, environment and other local issues. The Record focuses on holding public entities accountable and informs residents of the town's and schools' uses of public dollars. The Record employs a dedicated editorial staff with an understanding of the community that follows and investigates local issues to produce original reporting. All of The Record's journalism undergoes professional scrutiny and fact-checking prior to publication. The Record's editorial standards cover balance, literary quality, originality, sourcing strength, contextualization and more. The implementation of these standards are overseen by the Editor in Chief. The Record's Board of Directors ensures The Record maintains its editorial standards, but does not modify the journalistic integrity of the Editor in Chief, a crucial protection of independent journalism and a distinction from how for-profit news organizations operate.

    Expenses $136,118 · Revenue $298,624

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.

  • Joseph Coughlin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $86,961
    From this org
    $86,961
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • Jennifer Gordon

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • John Jenks

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Fouad Egbaria

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • JA Adande

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • George Rafeedie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $298,634
    Expenses
    $235,457
    Contributions
    $218,016
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $176,154
    Expenses
    $142,244
    Contributions
    $106,587
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $125,000
    Expenses
    $116,978
    Contributions
    $61,840
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $131,123
    Expenses
    $139,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,472

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $76,078
    Expenses
    $63,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,161

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

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.