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FOREST AND FOUND

EIN 46-4641481 LAKE FOREST, IL

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Revenue 2025
$254,406
Expenses 2025
$280,128

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P29
Classification
1000
Street
1363 N WESTERN 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 · 2025

Mission

Distribute to charitable organizations the net proceeds generated by thrift store operations.

  • The Organization is honored to provide contributions to five organizations in Lake County, Illinois.

    Expenses $136,000 · Grants $136,000

  • The operations of the Organization are conducted by substantially all volunteer labor, which is not recorded in the financial section of form 990. 20 volunteers provided approximately 3,500 hours of service to the Organization.

    Expenses $113,575

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.

  • Diana Durkes wages for store manage

    President

    Total calculated
    $81,120
    From this org
    $81,120
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rich Foss

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pam Leach

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sherry Arthur

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheryl Garamoni

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosemary Troxel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $254,406
    Expenses
    $280,128
    Contributions
    $43,249
    Grants paid
    $136,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $229,290
    Expenses
    $226,417
    Contributions
    $45,858
    Grants paid
    $85,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $218,730
    Expenses
    $218,969
    Contributions
    $43,746
    Grants paid
    $86,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $389,524
    Expenses
    $416,767
    Contributions
    $194,762
    Grants paid
    $80,000

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
    $409,038
    Expenses
    $377,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,734

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $275,038
    Expenses
    $279,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,296

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,893
    Expenses
    $297,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,333

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $214,276
    Expenses
    $185,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,355

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $182,741
    Expenses
    $183,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,686

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $191,572
    Expenses
    $165,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,073

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $150,756
    Expenses
    $139,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,850

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.