BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

2000

Street

333 N MICHIGAN AVE 1000

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 · 2024

• BLOCK CLUB IS THE MOST PROLIFIC HYPERLOCAL NEWS OPERATION IN THE CHICAGO AREA. WE'VE PUBLISHED MORE THAN 25,000 STORIES ON CHICAGO'S NEIGHBORHOODS, COVERED HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND SEND OUR NEWSLETTER OUT TO MORE THAN 112,000 PEOPLE DAILY.BLOCK CLUB BELIEVES ALL NEIGHBORHOODS DESERVE TO BE COVERED IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. WE AMPLIFY POSITIVE STORIES, SHOW UP TO DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETINGS AND SERVE AS WATCHDOG IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE OFTEN OSTRACIZED BY TRADITIONAL NEWS MEDIA.OUR REPORTERS DON'T PARACHUTE IN ONCE TO COVER A STORY. THEY ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY COVER EVERY DAY BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS OVER TIME WITH NEIGHBORS. WE BELIEVE THIS GROUND-LEVEL APPROACH NOT ONLY BUILDS COMMUNITY BUT LEADS TO A MORE ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF A NEIGHBORHOODS.

  Expenses $3,652,721 · Revenue $1,269,561

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,528,971

  Expenses

  $4,908,142

  Contributions

  $2,875,917

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,194,646

  Expenses

  $3,865,946

  Contributions

  $1,739,480

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,658,944

  Expenses

  $2,440,100

  Contributions

  $3,384,174

  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

• 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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,107,050

  Expenses

  $1,814,815

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,630,325

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,799,866

  Expenses

  $1,373,330

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,224,016

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,098,067

  Expenses

  $1,010,148

  Assets (EOY)

  $671,942

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $921,675

  Expenses

  $636,239

  Assets (EOY)

  $405,401

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

• ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION

  $1,600,000

  2022 · FOR BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO'S INVESTIGATIVE COVERAGE OF AND FOR CHICAGO'S SOUTH AND WEST SIDES

• AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

  $537,400

  2023 · TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $531,000

  2022 · General Operating Support, in support of the production of news stories and community partnerships that result in the publication of stories South and West side residents identify as important to increasing connections and facilitating collective dialogues on issues that disproportionately impact their communities, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust., in support of Block Club Chicago NFP's increased news reporting and amplified coverage of issues related to housing and homeownership on the South and West sides of Chicago, In support of increased news coverage and reporting of issues related to community safety and well-being

• AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

  $396,800

  2022 · TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.

• AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

  $369,963

  2024 · TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $212,035

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $173,240

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $101,000

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• LOCAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION

  $50,000

  2022 · READER REVENUE INITIATIVE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $46,970

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

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

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