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CHICAGO CHILDRENS THEATRE

EIN 30-0271139 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$2,483,840
Expenses 2024
$2,933,232

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1000
Street
100 S RACINE STE 2ND FL

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

CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASPIRES TO ENRICH OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH DIVERSE AND SIGNIFICANT THEATRICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING THAT ENGAGES AND INSPIRES THE CHILD IN ALL OF US.

  • THEATRE PRODUCTIONS - THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS THAT CREATE AWE-INSPIRING WORK FOR OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY WHILE INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES TO LEAD LIVES OF ADVENTURE, COURAGE, AND CURIOSITY AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING THAT EMPOWERS THE NEXT GENERATION OF PERFORMERS, INNOVATORS, AND COLLABORATORS AND EMPHASIZES STUDENT AUTHORSHIP, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT, AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP.

    Expenses $2,426,362 · Revenue $1,029,873

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.

  • Jacqueline Russell

    CO-FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,112
    From this org
    $118,084
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,028
    Hours/week
    40

  • Todd Leland

    CO-FOUNDER AND BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Armando Chacon

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Saltiel

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jack Lavin

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Chung

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Crouch

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Gaito

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meridith Kaminski

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ariel Knowles

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Melendes

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Neveux

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Winter

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Curtis Wilgosh

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tirath Desai

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dori Bowling

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Viviana Martinez

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Vojta

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Koucherik

    GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $78,069
    From this org
    $78,069
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,483,840
    Expenses
    $2,933,232
    Contributions
    $1,527,022
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,005,543
    Expenses
    $2,701,610
    Contributions
    $1,982,142
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,855,362
    Expenses
    $2,221,417
    Contributions
    $794,500
    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
    $1,756,177
    Expenses
    $1,833,333
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,896,415

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,073,803
    Expenses
    $1,316,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,708,554

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,073,803
    Expenses
    $1,316,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,708,554

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,721,989
    Expenses
    $1,849,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,137,947

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,830,571
    Expenses
    $1,953,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,115,518

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,688,654
    Expenses
    $2,206,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,395,483

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

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 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.