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TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC

EIN 20-5289962 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$2,301,321
Expenses 2024
$1,848,983

Program services were 95.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1300
Street
4655 S KING DR STE 203

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

Mission

TO PROVIDE CREATIVE A OUTLET IN LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT YOUTH PROGRAMS. ITS PROGRAMS EXPOSE YOUTH TO REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELDS OF PUBLISHING, MARKETING AND ENTERTAINMENT.

  • Partnered with State Farm to implement the safe driving fair and created a safe driving campaign

    Expenses $75,000 · Grants $75,000 · Revenue $75,000

  • Youth Curated Violence Prevention Festival-Go Fest for 2000 particpants attened

    Expenses $100,000 · Grants $100,000 · Revenue $100,000

  • Implemented various afterschool programs that supported 75 youth with training on Podcast creation, content and media training.

    Expenses $1,583,360 · Grants $1,159,285 · Revenue $1,288,094

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.

  • Deanna McLeary

    CO-EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $106,699
    From this org
    $106,699
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jequana Thompson

    CO-EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,769
    From this org
    $90,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bhavesh Shaj

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kristen Jordan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ashlee Jordan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mia Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gilbert Jimenez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Thomas McLeary

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jasmine Nevels

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Nichols

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jerry Stoffl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Josh Walls

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $2,301,321
    Expenses
    $1,848,983
    Contributions
    $1,409,186
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,547,505
    Expenses
    $1,341,863
    Contributions
    $1,209,228
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $749,314
    Expenses
    $969,027
    Contributions
    $436,807
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,138,182
    Expenses
    $876,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $613,201

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $797,791
    Expenses
    $611,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $451,348

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $665,788
    Expenses
    $606,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,152

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $661,327
    Expenses
    $666,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,321

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $594,802
    Expenses
    $571,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,706

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $566,129
    Expenses
    $579,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,960

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $567,528
    Expenses
    $573,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,403

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $464,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,513

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $433,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,294

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2015, reinstated 15 May 2015.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.