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CIRCESTEEM INC

EIN 32-0050649 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2025
$2,098,351
Expenses 2025
$3,115,683

Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
4730 N SHERIDAN RD

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

TO UNITE YOUTH ACROSS ALL BACKGROUNDS AND IDENTITIES BY FOSTERING SELF-ESTEEM AND MUTUAL RESPECT THROUGH THE PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE OF CIRCUS ARTS.

  • PROVIDES SOCIAL CIRCUS WORKSHOPS FOR YOUTH FROM VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS IN CHICAGO IN ORDER TO BUILD SELF ESTEEM AND BUILD A DIVERSE AND UNITED COMMUNITY. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO PROVIDES ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT, MENTORING, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING FOR STUDENTS.

    Expenses $2,427,580 · Revenue $352,987

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.

  • Alvin Boutte Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Rooney

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abraham Nalin Bhutt

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Gagel

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jack Gomberg

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meredith George

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Steve Bynum

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jefferson Park

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maude Tremblay

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Blair

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suzanne Fighera

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Roberts

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $158,730
    From this org
    $141,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,920
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,810
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,640
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,280
    Filer's total
    $158,730

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
    $2,098,351
    Expenses
    $3,115,683
    Contributions
    $1,632,505
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,719,221
    Expenses
    $3,043,748
    Contributions
    $7,283,195
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,074,118
    Expenses
    $2,333,372
    Contributions
    $1,526,635
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,453,635
    Expenses
    $1,917,020
    Contributions
    $6,072,401
    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
    $1,257,880
    Expenses
    $1,187,206
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,179,186

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,267,369
    Expenses
    $1,048,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $823,362

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,208,271
    Expenses
    $1,032,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $586,790

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,591
    Expenses
    $793,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,192

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $383,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,199

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.