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HOPE CENTER FOUNDATION

EIN 47-3874040 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,280,822
Expenses 2024
$1,603,671

Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
10909 S COTTAGE GROVE 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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The organization works to address the root causes contributing to poverty and violence in the community through imaginative, solution-focused programs that provide support in the areas of home ownership, financial literacy, workforce development, youth mentorship, and entrepreneurship.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Helping Chicago residents to transition out of poverty to living wage & into generational wealth

  • R.E.A.D.Y. (Recruit, Employ, Advance & Develop Youth) - To Work is a twenty-week job readiness program designed for low-income youth ages 16-24. The goal of the R.E.A.D.Y. To Work program is to provide exposure and to prepare participants for the workforce by providing career training. Using creative methods, the Hope Center Foundation will recruit, employ, and develop youth by guiding them to become better citizens through active involvement in the workforce.

    Expenses $1,147,115 · Grants $194,119

  • Hope Center Foundation,in partnership with Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives (CNI) and United Power, will create a pathway to economic opportunity, homeownership, and generational wealth for low-to-moderate-income residents of the Roseland community in Chicago. The "Reclaiming Communities" project involves the construction of 1,000 single-family, affordable homes to help residents invest in and revitalize their own communities.

    Expenses $115,432

  • The organization provides assistance to those in need each year. Transportation grants through Ventra gift cards were given out to cover ride-sharing expenses to assist clients with their transportation needs.

    Expenses $15,811 · Grants $15,811

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.

  • Cheryle Jackson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Darryl Farrow

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James T Meeks

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Henry D McGhee Jr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jamell Meeks

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Otis Wright

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shenita Muse

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $144,934
    From this org
    $116,896
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,038
    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
    $1,280,822
    Expenses
    $1,603,671
    Contributions
    $1,343,733
    Grants paid
    $209,930
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,643,343
    Expenses
    $1,610,897
    Contributions
    $1,642,711
    Grants paid
    $366,642
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $980,418
    Expenses
    $1,006,438
    Contributions
    $991,370
    Grants paid
    $138,370

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
    $527,466
    Expenses
    $420,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $228,453

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,980
    Expenses
    $181,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,679

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Rev James T Meeks
Mailing address
10909 S COTTAGE GROVE AVENUECHICAGO IL 60628

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.