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LYTE COLLECTIVE

EIN 47-1784239 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$1,190,139
Expenses 2025
$1,017,401

Program services were 96.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
549 E 76TH ST

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

Mission

THE LYTE COLLECTIVE PROVIDES CHICAGO YOUTH IN SITUATIONS OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS WITH SAFE SPACE, CRITICAL RESOURCES AND HOLISTIC SUPPORT. THE ORGANIZATION INVESTS IN THE EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS, AND POWER OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORK TO ENSURE THAT ALL YOUTH HAVE THE SAFETY, OPPORTUNITIES AND JUSTICE THEY DESERVE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LYTE COLLECTIVE SERVES YOUNG ADULTS IMPACTED BY POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS. OUR MISSION IS TO:SUPPORT EVERY YOUNG ADULT WHO CONTACTS US, WITH WHATEVER THEY NEED, FOR AS LONG AS THEY WANT US BY THEIR SIDE.END HARMFUL SYSTEMS THAT CAUSE YOUNG PEOPLE TO NEED OUR HELP IN THE FIRST PLACE.BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD TOGETHER WITH ALL WHO ASPIRE TO DO BETTER BY YOUNG PEOPLE.

  • LYTE COLLECTIVE SERVED YOUTH EXPERIENCING POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS THROUGH HOLISTIC SUPPORT SERVICES THAT INCLUDED: CONNECTION TO HOUSING; PROVIDING FOOD, CLOTHING, SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORTATION; PROVIDING EMERGENCY FUNDS; ENROLLMENT SUPPORT AND AVOCACY WITHIN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES; SUPPORT IN GAINING EMPLOYMENT AND INCREASING INCOME; ACCEESSING PUBLIC BENEFITS; ACCESSING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES; OBTAINING CHILDCARE; OBTAINING LEGAL SERVICES; HOSTING GROUPS AND ACTIVITIES; AND ONGOING MENTORSHIP.

    Expenses $985,205 · Revenue $15,296

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.

  • BONN WADE

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • WILL BULKA

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DARRIN SHILLAIR

    SECRETARY AND ACTING TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • AMANDA DUNNAVANT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DERRICK FISHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PATRICIA POSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,190,139
    Expenses
    $1,017,401
    Contributions
    $1,174,843
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $573,350
    Expenses
    $951,016
    Contributions
    $564,350
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $771,725
    Expenses
    $809,726
    Contributions
    $761,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,042,167
    Expenses
    $721,493
    Contributions
    $1,034,442
    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
    $767,045
    Expenses
    $679,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,279,084

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $759,416
    Expenses
    $457,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,060,332

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $682,556
    Expenses
    $33,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $840,674

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.