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CHICAGO ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUALEXPLOITATION

EIN 26-0220074 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2023
$2,348,147
Expenses 2023
$2,435,607

Program services were 68.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R24
Classification
1000
Street
307 N MICHIGAN 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 · 2023

Mission

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE), is a nonprofit organization that envisions a community free from all forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual assault and commercial sex trade. CAASE addresses the culture, institutions and individuals that perpetrate, profit from, or support sexual exploitation. CAASEs work includes prevention, policy, reform, community management, and legal services.

  • Legal Service: CAASE engages in civil litigation against perpetrators and facilitators of sexual harm and advocates effective criminal prosecution of perpetrators. CAASE also advocates for public policies that increase the efficacy of criminal and civil laws pertaining to sexual violence and exploitation.

    Expenses $1,243,595

  • Policy and Advocacy: CAASE advocates for legislative and policy reforms that will increase legal and social accountability for perpetrators of harm, especially sex traffickers, pimps, people who buy sex,and those who commit sexual assault. CAASE also promotes support for services and resources for survivors. CAASE advises law enforcement, policy makers, and other stakeholders on best practices relating to sex trafficking, prostitution, and rape.

    Expenses $173,121

  • Prevention: CAASE creates and implements educational curricula that encourages high- school-age men and women to work against sexual exploitation.

    Expenses $169,454 · Revenue $3,630

  • Community Engagement: CAASE works to prevent sexual exploitation by increasing public understanding of the harms inherent in the sex trade. CAASEs approach to engagement includes research and the arts. Additionally, CAASE develops toolkits for non-profits, faith-based groups, schools, businesses, feminist groups and other communities and individuals who would like to take action against sexual harm.

    Expenses $90,444

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Holly Verdeyen

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Linda Friedman

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathryn Wilson

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cynthia Cuyjet

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kristen Boyd

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sabina Gebczyk

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denise Fogus Gibson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judy Gold

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Haines

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenny Halpern

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Courtney Henderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Holl-Chang

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reggie Rush

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reena Panchal

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Clare Lilek

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaethe Morris Hoffer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $129,888
    From this org
    $126,088
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,800
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,348,147
    Expenses
    $2,435,607
    Contributions
    $2,344,412
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,073,265
    Expenses
    $2,194,716
    Contributions
    $2,055,790
    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
    $2,625,857
    Expenses
    $2,418,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,014,353

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,212,345
    Expenses
    $2,180,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $833,924

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,688,154
    Expenses
    $1,628,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,036

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,442,121
    Expenses
    $1,340,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $713,088

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,131,521
    Expenses
    $1,106,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $592,540

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,046,199
    Expenses
    $980,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,576

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.