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RECIPE FOR CHANGE

EIN 47-2510670 WINNETKA, IL

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Revenue 2025
$699,280
Expenses 2025
$634,481

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1000
Street
507 CHESTNUT 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

RECIPE FOR CHANGE IS PROVIDING MENTORING AND GUIDANCE TO DETAINEES IN THE JAIL AND PRISON SYSTEM THROUGH CULINARY, FINE ARTS AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING WHILE REINFORCING THE VALUE OF WORK AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY

  • RECIPE FOR CHANGE IS PROVIDING MENTORING AND GUIDANCE TO DETAINEES IN THE JAIL AND PRISON SYSTEM THROUGH CULINARY, FINE ARTS AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING WHILE REINFORCING THE VALUE OF WORK AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. RECIPE FOR CHANGE OPERATES AN ACTIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FIVE DAYS A WEEK IN THE COOK COUNTY JAIL (ILLINIOS, USA) AND WORKING TOWARD THE GOAL OF ESTABLISHING A COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAM OFFERING SUPPORT AND CONTINUED TRAINING FOR RECENTLY RELEASED DETAINEES.

    Expenses $525,790 · Revenue $244,721

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.

  • Bruno Abate

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $35,900
    From this org
    $35,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carolyn Kurtz

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Sue Oleari

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Daniel Townsend

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Clifford Norris

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $699,280
    Expenses
    $634,481
    Contributions
    $454,212
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $780,260
    Expenses
    $556,298
    Contributions
    $556,567
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $420,850
    Expenses
    $275,135
    Contributions
    $385,596
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $329,187
    Expenses
    $398,083
    Contributions
    $300,601
    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
    $331,972
    Expenses
    $208,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $388,322

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $260,244
    Expenses
    $276,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,107

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $290,076
    Expenses
    $306,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $276,309

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,770
    Expenses
    $189,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $295,205

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $283,649
    Expenses
    $160,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,822

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $132,554
    Expenses
    $54,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,695

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 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.