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SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL

EIN 90-0543317 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$494,637
Expenses 2025
$522,417

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S41
Classification
1000
Street
20 N CLARK ST STE 3300

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

THE SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL (SBAC) IS A NON-PARTISAN, MEMBER DRIVEN ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES THE SUCCESS OF SMALL BUSINESS THROUGH POLITICAL ADVOCACY, SUPPORT SERVICES, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

  • ORGANIZE NETWORKING FUNCTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING OUR MEMBERS GROW THEIR BUSINESS AND INTERACT WITH LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERS

  • HOLD POLICY MEETINGS WHEREIN ITS MEMBERS WILL IDENTIFY ISSUES PERTINENT TO SMALL BUSINESS AND ESTABLISH MECHANISMS AND STRATEGIES TO ADVOCATE FOR POLICIES IN THE INTEREST OF OUR MEMBERS

  • MAINTAIN A WEBSITE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATING OUR MEMBERS, PROMOTING THEIR BUSINESS AND / OR SERVICES AND PROVIDING AN OUTLET FOR OUR MEMBERS TO EXPRESS THEIR CONCERNS

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • ELLIOT RICHARDSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT BASKIN

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL DARK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL BEMPAH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NELI VAZQUEZ ROWLAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES SCORDO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN BALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LARRY MINUTILLO

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LESLEE COHEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAREN KIMSEY-SWARD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIC MICELI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $494,637
    Expenses
    $522,417
    Contributions
    $374,433
    Grants paid
    $263,688
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $437,521
    Expenses
    $417,307
    Contributions
    $321,624
    Grants paid
    $84,375
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $490,132
    Expenses
    $411,220
    Contributions
    $337,902
    Grants paid
    $117,500

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
    $343,925
    Expenses
    $304,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,068

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,053
    Expenses
    $251,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,455

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $417,998
    Expenses
    $388,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,637

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $351,375
    Expenses
    $362,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,586

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $490,413
    Expenses
    $505,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,560

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

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $650,000

    2022 The purpose of this grant is to provide resources including coaching, grants and expertise to small business seeking to move to a physical location for their operations in one of the 10 communities where We Rise Together has made significant investments and to create a roadmap from this experience to help inform future small business owners on how to navigate this process.

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $400,000

    2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $150,000

    2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

  • SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW

    $10,000

    2023 HELP DEVELOP AND REFINE THE EDUCATION, ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING STRATEGY FOR 2023 LEGISLATION

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.