- Revenue 2024
- $82,251
- Expenses 2024
- $71,614
Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- J22
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 825 W 69TH 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).
Other organizations at this address
2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us
We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.
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GE CHAMBER FOUNDATION
EIN 82-4824489
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GREATER ENGLEWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
EIN 30-0964184
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Community gathering place for the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The primary exempt purposes are 1) charitable - job training and apprenticeship 2) educational (community events). Kusanya is open to the public 5 days per week, operating a job training / apprenticeship cafe and community gathering space. Kusanya hosts many community events each year, many of which are free and open to the public.
Activities or mission (Part I)
See Schedule O
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APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: FOOD SERVICE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP. FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES MENTORSHIP, TRAINING, AND HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN AN OPERATIONAL COMMUNITY CAFE. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS ARE UNDER-RESOURCED AND/OR UNDER-EMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS AT THE TIME OF ENROLLMENT; MAINLY RESIDENTS OF THE ENGLEWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, WHERE KUSANYA IS LOCATED. FOOD SERVICE TRACK: INCLUDES FOOD SAFETY, PREPARATION, COOKING AND PRESENTATION; CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS; COFFEE INDUSTRY SKILLS (ROASTING AND DRINK PREPARATION); AND MENTORING IN SOFT SKILLS / INTERPERSONAL SKILLS. ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRACK: LONG-TERM MENTORING FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE MANAGERIAL, COMMUNITY/LEADERSHIP, OR ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASPIRATIONS. PROGRAM INCLUDES GOAL-SETTING AND CREATION/REFINEMENT OF A CONCEPT FOR THE PARTICIPANTS' POTENTIAL BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION. PARTICIPANTS ARE SUPPORTED AT IN-DEPTH RESEARCH AND CREATING PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS SUITABLE FOR THEIR NEXT STEP. HANDS-ON TRAINING INCLUDES HIGH-LEVEL ASPECTS OF STARTING OR MANAGING A FOOD SERVICE BUSINESS, OR COMMUNITY ORG, I.E. MENU DESIGN, STAFF TRAINING, MARKETING, SUPPLY CHAIN, ETC.
Expenses $52,070 · Revenue $68,657
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CONTINUED TO BUILD AN OUTDOOR GATHERING SPACE AND COMMUNITY GARDEN THAT WAS HOME TO MULTIPLE MUSICAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS THIS YEAR. THE GARDEN IS ON THE SAME BLOCK AS KUSANYA.
Expenses $2,893
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Expenses $2,892
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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Phil Sipka
Executive Director & Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $44,000
- From this org
- $22,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,000
- Hours/week
- 50
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Ebony Sipka
Director & Employee
- Total calculated
- $29,232
- From this org
- $14,616
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,616
- Hours/week
- 38
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Clarence Hogan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brittany Norment
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Lauren Duffy
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jonathan Brooks
President
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $82,251
- Expenses
- $71,614
- Contributions
- $13,480
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $61,057
- Expenses
- $59,527
- Contributions
- $27,469
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $44,919
- Expenses
- $53,346
- Contributions
- $15,528
- 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-EZ
- Revenue
- $53,009
- Expenses
- $49,369
- Assets (EOY)
- $116,388
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $108,835
- Expenses
- $48,958
- Assets (EOY)
- $112,748
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2019 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $66,943
- Expenses
- $50,387
- Assets (EOY)
- $52,871
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $58,052
- Expenses
- $47,152
- Assets (EOY)
- $36,315
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $49,816
- Expenses
- $48,390
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,417
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
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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.