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BIG SHOULDERS FUND

EIN 36-3490557 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$53,155,887
Expenses 2024
$54,884,867

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B122
Classification
1000
Street
212 W VAN BUREN ST STE 900

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.

  • John Croghan

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kenneth J Velo

    Co-Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Kent Dauten

    Co-Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Arthur R Velasquez

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles K Bobrinskoy

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cherryl Thomas

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine E Kelly

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Valenti

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Doherty

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Dury

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dennis Fitzsimons

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Cole

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gerald Beeson

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Giancarlo Turano

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gregory Q Brown

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James A Gordon

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Compton

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Hoeg

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John A Canning Jr

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Schreiber

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kimberly Querrey

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Larry Richman

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lee Henderson

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leigh-Anne Kazma

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Dempsey

    Board of Trustees

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $53,155,887
    Expenses
    $54,884,867
    Contributions
    $42,507,854
    Grants paid
    $41,830,502
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $84,776,624
    Expenses
    $75,889,009
    Contributions
    $72,815,110
    Grants paid
    $63,152,854
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $65,677,021
    Expenses
    $58,940,127
    Contributions
    $56,956,626
    Grants paid
    $48,013,219

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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.