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ACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC

EIN 36-4235934 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$119,122,514
Expenses 2024
$117,072,957

Program services were 94.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
18 S 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TRANSFORMING MINDS THROUGH ACADEMIC EMPOWERMENT AND SUCCESS. ACERO PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL LAUNCH THE NEXT GENERATION OF EXTRAORDINARY LIFE-LONG LEARNERS, DISCERNERS AND DOERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ORGANIZATION PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTHS IN K-12.

  • STUDENT FEE - EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL SERVING 6,179 STUDENTS THROUGH 12 ELEMENTARY AND 3 HIGH SCHOOLS, RESPECTIVELY.

    Expenses $110,247,782 · Revenue $262,832

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.

  • Jairo Naranjo

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Douglass Hewitt

    VICE-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Roxanne Matias

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Simon Yohanan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joseph Garcia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin J Guitterrez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marco A Rodriguez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Margery Yeager

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Socorro Vega

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vivian Mikhail

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lionel Sarti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Richard L Rodriguez

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $349,564
    From this org
    $290,543
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,021
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $264,167
    Bonus
    $25,543
    Other
    $833
    Deferred
    $31,906
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,115
    Filer's total
    $349,564
  • Richard E Valerga

    CHIEF FINANCIAL & OP OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $298,364
    From this org
    $245,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,931
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,414
    Bonus
    $58,019
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,431
    Filer's total
    $298,364
  • Helena C Stangle

    CHIEF CULTURE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $234,643
    From this org
    $209,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,778
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,414
    Bonus
    $22,451
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,485
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,293
    Filer's total
    $234,643
  • Alfredo Nambo

    CHIEF EDUCATION OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $247,523
    From this org
    $209,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,658
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,414
    Bonus
    $22,451
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,789
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,869
    Filer's total
    $247,523
  • Ariel A Correa

    SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $167,229
    From this org
    $154,842
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,387
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,842
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,387
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $167,229
  • Analaura Alcantar

    SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $190,040
    From this org
    $148,712
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,328
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,712
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,897
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,431
    Filer's total
    $190,040
  • Melissa Sweazy

    SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $199,370
    From this org
    $157,351
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,019
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,851
    Bonus
    $2,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,588
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,431
    Filer's total
    $199,370
  • Mark Nagode

    FACILITIES AND ASSET MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $159,464
    From this org
    $147,226
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,238
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,726
    Bonus
    $2,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,945
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,293
    Filer's total
    $159,464
  • Madelyn P Bartholomew

    DEPUTY CHIEF OP OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $184,362
    From this org
    $154,931
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,431
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,931
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,431
    Filer's total
    $184,362

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $119,122,514
    Expenses
    $117,072,957
    Contributions
    $118,804,565
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $124,882,198
    Expenses
    $120,344,943
    Contributions
    $123,138,884
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $124,373,152
    Expenses
    $119,294,736
    Contributions
    $123,446,661
    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
    $117,350,059
    Expenses
    $110,041,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,251,624
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $113,233,241
    Expenses
    $108,438,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,227,259
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $99,185,235
    Expenses
    $98,118,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,308,666
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $97,048,525
    Expenses
    $94,381,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,193,414
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $96,191,553
    Expenses
    $86,657,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,394,422
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,514,595
    Expenses
    $91,844,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,636,477
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $90,562,940
    Expenses
    $88,146,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,159,745
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $83,049,013
    Expenses
    $80,797,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,630,145
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $63,890,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,613,240
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $47,342,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,074,900

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.