AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

2000

Street

2518 BURNSED BLVD 609

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 · 2025

• DATA CAPTURE:AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY CAPTURES RAW SPENDING DATA REPORTED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND/OR OBTAINED IN RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS. WE CLEAN, ORGANIZE, AND MAKE SEARCHABLE INFORMATION PRODUCED IN VARIOUS FORMATS, THEN UPLOAD IT TO OUR PROPRIETARY DATABASE, WHERE IT BECOMES SEARCHABLE AND TRACKABLE BY INTERNAL TEAMS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THE DATA-CAPTURE FUNCTIONALITY, PAYMENT FOR STORAGE SPACE, AND UPKEEP OF THE DATA ARE ALL PURSUANT TO OUR MISSION: TO ADVOCATE FOR GOVERNMENT SPENDING TRANSPARENCY, MAKE ALL PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AVAILABLE ONLINE, AND EMPOWER TAXPAYERS TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE.

  Expenses $1,593,822 · Grants $855 · Revenue $152,274

• OVERSIGHT REPORTING:WE STAFF A TEAM OF DATA JOURNALISTS WHO USE BILLIONS OF SPENDING DATA POINTS TO REPORT INSTANCES OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE, AND TO ANALYZE LARGE-SCALE DATASETS THAT PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE RELATIVE EFFICACY OF SPENDING AND PUBLIC POLICY OUTCOMES. THESE EXPENSES INCLUDE COMPENSATION, MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB PROPERTIES, MARKETING FUNCTIONS, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS, AND FEES RELATED TO PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS. THE OVERSIGHT REPORTING CAPABILITY SERVES DUAL PURPOSES: DEMONSTRATING THE KINDS OF INSIGHTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH OUR PROPRIETARY DATABASE OF PUBLIC SPENDING, AND DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE ORGANIZATION'S CORE TRANSPARENCY MISSION THROUGH INTERESTING AND PROVOCATIVE CASE STUDIES OR EXAMPLES OF WASTEFUL SPENDING.

  Expenses $1,072,240 · Revenue $50,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,734,033

  Expenses

  $3,402,697

  Contributions

  $2,507,129

  Grants paid

  $855

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,283,464

  Expenses

  $3,466,580

  Contributions

  $4,128,646

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,523,363

  Expenses

  $3,246,497

  Contributions

  $3,212,057

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,917,529

  Expenses

  $2,772,382

  Contributions

  $2,916,864

  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

  $2,485,797

  Expenses

  $2,373,762

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,296,587

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,821,314

  Expenses

  $2,365,481

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,186,061

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,480,807

  Expenses

  $2,380,025

  Assets (EOY)

  $463,367

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,448,484

  Expenses

  $2,396,284

  Assets (EOY)

  $337,730

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,022,301

  Expenses

  $1,849,220

  Assets (EOY)

  $285,530

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,531,551

  Expenses

  $1,732,297

  Assets (EOY)

  $112,449

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,156,021

  Expenses

  $1,124,513

  Assets (EOY)

  $313,195

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $785,987

  Expenses

  $546,417

  Assets (EOY)

  $281,687

• 2013 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $85,383

  Expenses

  $100,817

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,118

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period

1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010

Principal officer

Michael Tams

Mailing address

624 North Brainard StreetNaperville IL 60563

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $1,031,310

  2024 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $668,530

  2023 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $190,351

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC

  $121,500

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $109,400

  2022 · EDUCATION

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $100,000

  2022 · for Open the Books

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $84,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $77,600

  2023 · for general operations

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $77,000

  2022 · for general operations

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $61,000

  2022 · General Operating Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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