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FRED SAYS

EIN 45-5142943 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$32,465
Expenses 2025
$113,927

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T11
Classification
1000
Street
930 W ALTGELD STREET

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Garofalo

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Kuhns

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Garofalo Bonifacio

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brad Gerber

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Babafemi O Taiwo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Garofalo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zach Stafford

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $32,465
    Expenses
    $113,927
    Contributions
    $500
    Grants paid
    $81,600
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $549,265
    Expenses
    $258,555
    Contributions
    $524,500
    Grants paid
    $225,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $500,026
    Expenses
    $324,098
    Contributions
    $500,026
    Grants paid
    $300,833
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $530,321
    Expenses
    $150,313
    Contributions
    $530,321
    Grants paid
    $120,000

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

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $8,692
    Expenses
    $11,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,606

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $11,262
    Expenses
    $28,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,904

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $54,204
    Expenses
    $43,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,221

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $60,342
    Expenses
    $76,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,675

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $101,419
    Expenses
    $114,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,672

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,246
    Expenses
    $58,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,919

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $128,198
    Expenses
    $93,566
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,283

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Robert Garofalo
Mailing address
840 W ROSCOE ST APT 4WCHICAGO IL 60657
Website
http://fredsays.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 PF.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.