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FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO

EIN 82-2650675 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$4,662,352
Expenses 2024
$3,781,006

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P28
Classification
1200
Street
1512 S PULASKI RD

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

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO HAS A MISSION OF IMPACTING GENERATIONAL CHANGE BY EMPOWERING YOUTH WHO ARE FACING THE GREATEST OBSTACLES THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS WITH PROFESSIONAL MENTORS - 12+ YEARS, NO MATTER WHAT. 92% GO ON TO ENROLL IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION, SERVE OUR COUNTRY, OR ENTER THE WORKFORCE. 83% GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL OR EARN A GED, 93% AVOID JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT, AND 98% WAIT TO PARENT UNTIL AFTER THEIR TEEN YEARS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN IS A PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM HELPING THE CHILDREN FACING THE GREATEST RISK FACTORS DEVELOP THE RELATIONSHIPS, GOALS AND SKILLS NECESSARY TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY, ABUSE AND VIOLENCE AND CHANGE THEIR LIFE'S TRAJECTORY. WE WORK WITH CHILDREN STARTING IN KINDERGARTEN AND STAY WITH THEM THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION - NO MATTER WHAT. EACH CHILD IS PAIRED WITH A "FRIEND" (A SALARIED, TRAINED, PROFESSIONAL, FULL-TIME STAFF MEMBER OF FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN) AND THEY SPEND 4 HOURS A WEEK TOGETHER 1:1 - IN SCHOOL, AT HOME AND IN THE COMMUNITY.

  • YOUTH IN THE FRIENDS PROGRAM FACE CONSIDERABLE CHALLENGES, INCLUDING PLACEMENT IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM, UNDER-RESOURCED NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS, HOMELESSNESS, HUNGER, AND CHALLENGES IN ACCESS TO AND QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE. DESPITE THESE BARRIERS, PROGRAM YOUTH ENTER ADULTHOOD WITH STRONG FOUNDATIONS FOR CONTINUING ACHIEVEMENT: 92% GO ON TO ENROLL IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION, SERVE OUR COUNTRY OR ENTER THE WORKFORCE, 83% GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL OR EARN A GED, 93% AVOID JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT, AND 98% WAIT TO PARENT UNTIL AFTER THEIR TEEN YEARS.

    Expenses $2,890,353

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • STACEY WILLIAMS

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEANNIE AFFELDER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUATISE GATHINGS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIRSTIN WELLS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE ABBOTT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTEN CARLSON VOGEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACKIE HAIRSTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE TOLLINCHE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHEILA HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN CUNNINGHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDY KLEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LARRY ETTNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE WILEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PASTOR DORIN MCINTYRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MACQULINE KING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAAL HASAK-LOWY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $200,119
    From this org
    $167,154
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,965
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,154
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,058
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,907
    Filer's total
    $200,119

  • LESLIE LEVY

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $123,235
    From this org
    $123,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. 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
    $4,662,352
    Expenses
    $3,781,006
    Contributions
    $4,692,661
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,500,324
    Expenses
    $3,529,374
    Contributions
    $4,445,210
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,837,693
    Expenses
    $2,555,424
    Contributions
    $2,856,230
    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
    $3,843,379
    Expenses
    $1,574,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,893,680

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,149,345
    Expenses
    $1,078,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $768,440

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,011,209
    Expenses
    $1,023,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,559

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

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.