- Revenue 2024
- $4,033,798
- Expenses 2024
- $2,725,982
Program services were 72.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 1100 LARAMIE 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).
Group exemption
A subordinate covered by the group exemption of HOPE IGNITES (EIN 51-0182614). matched by us
The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct program support and college scholarships.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The program provides housing and educational assistance for abandoned, abused, and neglected youths in a family environment that allows them to mature and succeed.
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BHGH of Illinois is a privately funded, DCFS-licensed, residential scholarship program. We provide family-like group homes, college-prep education, and support through college graduation to motivated students from impoverished families, mostly from Chicago's South and West sides. We have a 40-year track record in Evanston with hundreds of successful outcomes. For our 24 high school Scholars, ages 12-18, we break down barriers to achievement by providing everything a fortunate family might offer: a safe, structured home and excellent schools, nightly meals around a family table, medical care and social-emotional support, tutoring, ACT prep, college application guidance, community service, and extracurricular activities. For our 24 Collegians, we provide financial aid navigation, a scholarship, dorm setup, and computer, internship access, career readiness, and ongoing support when they stumble. BHGH offers motivated kids an opportunity to see the world beyond their neighborhoods and build a future for themselves and their families through grit, hard work, and high-quality education. Our program works: 100% of our Scholars graduate high school and matriculate to college. 75% of our Scholars graduate with a college degree!
Expenses $1,968,643
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.
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Karen Croteau
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $152,848
- From this org
- $152,848
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $152,848
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $152,848
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Michael Leahy
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jamie Baisley
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mike Halkitis
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John Lafferty
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Amy Ward
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jim Bertler
Treasurer and Finance Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Daniel Baker
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Christine Hjorth
Events Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeff Lundal
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Zumski
Secretary and Service Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
David Gibson
Nominations Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Kailus
Housing Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Christopher Tarzon
Executive Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Blocker
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lucien Cater
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Chris Crawshaw
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Donald Doan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mary Beth Fahrney
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rochelle Foster
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kathleen Gallagher
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Krista Gallagher
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John Hughes
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Martha Idler
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Peter Lee
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
The first 25 listed. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $4,033,798
- Expenses
- $2,725,982
- Contributions
- $3,287,800
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,923,491
- Expenses
- $2,437,819
- Contributions
- $4,291,923
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $2,210,344
- Expenses
- $2,294,473
- Contributions
- $1,664,596
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,217,355
- Expenses
- $1,936,916
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,760,886
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,787,835
- Expenses
- $2,159,124
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,242,662
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
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$188,867
2024 CULTURE & ARTS
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$167,400
2023 HEALTH
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$111,900
2024 HEALTH
-
2022 EDUCATION
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$68,000
2023 YOUTH DEVEL
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2024 EDUCATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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
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On its 2023 return
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On its 2023 return
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.