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CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 36-2167004 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2023
$13,368,780
Expenses 2023
$15,042,346

Program services were 58.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
2000
Street
1601 N CLARK ST

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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Donald Lassere

    President and CEO

    Total calculated
    $304,302
    From this org
    $304,302
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $304,302
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $304,302

  • Cheryl Obermeyer

    Vice President of Finance

    Total calculated
    $216,735
    From this org
    $216,735
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Thema McDonald

    Vice President of Marketing & Communications

    Total calculated
    $148,417
    From this org
    $148,417
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Michael Anderson

    Director Institutional Advancement, Major Gifts

    Total calculated
    $147,383
    From this org
    $147,383
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Shatierra Parks

    Senior Director of Human Resources

    Total calculated
    $110,435
    From this org
    $110,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Maria Di Lorenzo

    General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $108,750
    From this org
    $108,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Ralph G Moore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jennifer Kirk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark Potter

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jonathon Skinner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Arnaldo Rivera

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Daniel S Jaffee

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dionne Danns

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gary S Feinerman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • John N Low

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David A Mordini

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Elizabeth D Richter

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • T Bondurant French

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lafayette J Ford

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Sallie L Gaines

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Alejandra Garza

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Timothy J Gilfoyle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mary Lou Gorno

    Trustee-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David D Hiller

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Randye A Kogan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,368,780
    Expenses
    $15,042,346
    Contributions
    $7,146,964
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,748,259
    Expenses
    $16,978,721
    Contributions
    $9,121,521
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,038,485
    Expenses
    $15,016,771
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,431,701

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,768,760
    Expenses
    $14,865,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,770,893

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,725,952
    Expenses
    $17,310,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,490,653

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,365,120
    Expenses
    $19,040,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,638,136

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,089,750
    Expenses
    $18,077,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,085,091

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,110,596
    Expenses
    $16,954,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,557,489

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,608,829
    Expenses
    $16,628,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,524,830

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $19,195,261
    Expenses
    $16,347,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,196,060

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,695,997
    Expenses
    $15,142,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,446,826

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.