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GROWING SEASON-ILLINOIS INC

EIN 86-1376734 EVANSTON, IL

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Revenue 2024
-$4,709,142
Expenses 2024
$292,562

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
1603 ORRINGTON AVE APT 13

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

TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS BY DEVELOPING SPACES AND PROJECTS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES WHERE LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY LIMIT OPPORTUNITIES, AND BY PROVIDING TRAINING, MENTORING, HOLISTIC-HEALTH PROGRAMS, AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THESE SPACES AND PROJECTS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE FROM, AND REPRESENTATIVE OF, THESE COMMUNITIES AND, CONSEQUENTLY, ARE OFTEN UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

  • THE INITIATIVE FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTIES IN COMMUNITIES WHERE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY LIMIT OPPORTUNITY, WITH THE GOAL OF REVITALIZING THESE AREAS THROUGH INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH. IT PROVIDES TARGETED ASSISTANCE TO RACIAL-MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS BY ENABLING THEM TO OWN OR OPERATE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES WITHIN THE NEWLY DEVELOPED PROPERTIES. IN DECEMBER 2024, THE ORGANIZATION SOLD THE AUX, AS INITIALLY PLANNED TO AUXILIARY CORD LLC, A COMMUNITY-OWNED ENTITY THAT WILL CARRY THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND SERVE THE COMMUNITY. THE INITIATIVE PROMOTES THE EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH ACCESSIBLE, COMMUNITY-BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO BUILD SKILLS, RESILIENCE, AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS.

    Expenses $234,095

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.

  • Lori Laser

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Eason

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ramaa Krishnan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Berenice Sanchez

    TREASURY

    Total calculated
    $9,000
    From this org
    $9,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tiffini Holmes

    DIRECTOR AND CO-DEVELOPER

    Total calculated
    $44,500
    From this org
    $44,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    -$4,709,142
    Expenses
    $292,562
    Contributions
    $3,134,267
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,026,792
    Expenses
    $261,293
    Contributions
    $1,015,467
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,516,584
    Expenses
    $229,337
    Contributions
    $1,516,584
    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
    $1,151,978
    Expenses
    $226,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $942,083

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 11 November 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 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.