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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

EIN 36-4060341 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$3,203,873
Expenses 2024
$3,642,513

Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
7836 S UNION 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Community Youth Development Institute (CYDI) provides alternative schooling for at-risk teenagers through grants and contracts with Youth Connection Charter School, Alternative School Network, the City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

  • Community Youth Development Institute High School (CYDI) offers work based learning for all students and a unique opportunity to learn and earn money while enrolled at CYDI. Students have multiple opportunities to receive employment during the summer as well as academic year and training with curriculum job readiness. The program is designed to improve options for CYDI students, to better prepare them for college and career, and to provide work-based learning experiences to all our studentsThis program is a critical component of helping our youth access local career fields with relatively low barriers for entry and the opportunities to make money faster.

    Expenses $2,569,310 · Revenue $2,838,762

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.

  • Aaron L Royster Jr

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $112,218
    From this org
    $112,218
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mable Royster

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $38,000
    From this org
    $38,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James Miller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mildred Parker

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Arnond Pulliam

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $3,203,873
    Expenses
    $3,642,513
    Contributions
    $3,199,048
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,800,326
    Expenses
    $3,746,177
    Contributions
    $3,797,111
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,557,911
    Expenses
    $2,816,963
    Contributions
    $2,555,628
    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
    $2,511,022
    Expenses
    $2,300,602
    Assets (EOY)
    $865,490

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,185,002
    Expenses
    $2,219,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $748,119

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,190,622
    Expenses
    $2,177,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $756,518

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,321,135
    Expenses
    $2,116,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $532,923

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,233,840
    Expenses
    $2,061,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $389,991

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,914,740
    Expenses
    $1,731,053
    Assets (EOY)
    $337,904

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,070,650
    Expenses
    $2,272,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $295,273

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,546,106
    Expenses
    $2,477,216
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,577

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,425,167
    Expenses
    $2,368,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,511

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,102,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $473,423

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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.