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JUST ROOTS

EIN 82-4241543 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$679,273
Expenses 2024
$562,554

Program services were 78.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1280
Street
2936 S WABASH AVE

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

JUST ROOTS CHICAGO WAS INCORPORATED AS AN ILLINOIS NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION AND IS LOCATED IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND ACCESS TO LOCAL, SUSTAINABLY GROWN FOOD. JUST ROOTS CHICAGO GROWN CULTURALLY RELEVANT FOOD WITH AND FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY THOUGH SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

JUST ROOTS CHICAGO WAS INCORPORATED AS AN ILLINOIS NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION AND IS LOCATED IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND ACCESS TO LOCAL, SUSTAINABLY GROWN FOOD. JUST ROOTS CHICAGO GROWN CULTURALLY RELEVANT FOOD WITH AND FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY THOUGH SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES.JUST ROOTS CHICAGO FACILITATES HANDS-ON EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING THAT EQUIPS PARTICIPANTS WITH THE SKILLS AND RESOURCES TO GROW FOOD SUSTAINABLY AND WORK TOWARDS LEADING A HEALTHIER LIFE. THE ORGANIZATION USES ITS TWO FARMS AS COMMUNITY BUILDING SPACES TO FORGE RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS THROUGH SHARED SPACE, EVENTS AND GOOD FOOD.

  • JUST ROOTS WORKS IN COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND ACCESS TO LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE GROWN FOOD. IN FIVE YEARS OF OPERRATION, JUSTROOTS HAS BUILT TWO SUSTAINABLE URBAN FARMS AND CURRENTLY PRODUCES OVER 30,000 POUNDS OF PRODUCE/YEAR. THE FARMS ARE UTILIZED TO FACILITATE FREE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, VOLUNTERER OPPORTUNITIES, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING EVENTS FOR OVER 1,500 COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON ANNUAL BASIS.

    Expenses $443,755 · Revenue $112,451

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.

  • TAMMY REED TRAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN JOY DIZON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EILEEN PALIAKAS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMES ALEXANDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROB JACKSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAMANTHA MITCHELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALISON ORBIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEVERLY PRICE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH SIMPKIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $679,273
    Expenses
    $562,554
    Contributions
    $543,451
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $502,846
    Expenses
    $457,522
    Contributions
    $379,271
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $432,380
    Expenses
    $264,627
    Contributions
    $403,932
    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
    $207,820
    Expenses
    $87,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $208,276

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $113,987
    Expenses
    $45,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,302

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $47,492
    Expenses
    $31,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,118

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,182
    Expenses
    $17,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,521

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.