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BEARS CARE

EIN 20-3902715 LAKE FOREST, IL

Revenue 2024
$2,629,738
Expenses 2024
$2,943,974

Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T12
Classification
1000
Street
1920 FOOTBALL DR

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).

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.

  • JERRY AZUMAH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MS BARBARA MCCASKEY

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIMBERLY BOURNE SACCARO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRANDON FABER

    DIRECTOR (THRU MAY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • J GARY FENCIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CAROLINE SCHRENKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KEVIN WARREN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARGE HAMM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

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 — 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
    $2,629,738
    Expenses
    $2,943,974
    Contributions
    $2,572,180
    Grants paid
    $2,814,843
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,616,619
    Expenses
    $2,715,326
    Contributions
    $2,050,738
    Grants paid
    $2,647,358
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,221,689
    Expenses
    $2,739,528
    Contributions
    $2,801,986
    Grants paid
    $2,622,164

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.

Grants made

  • OTHER (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $741,100

    2023

  • OTHER (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $695,119

    2022

  • YOUTH AND FAMILY (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $559,988

    2023

  • RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

    $520,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE ROAD HOME PROGRAM: THE NATIONAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES AT RUSH

  • YOUTH AND FAMILY (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $478,087

    2022

  • EDUCATION (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $476,175

    2022

  • EDUCATION (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $460,000

    2023

  • ATHLETICS (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $416,283

    2022

  • ATHLETICS (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $303,270

    2023

  • HEALTH (SEE ATTACHMENT)

    $207,500

    2022

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.