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THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY

EIN 46-1465650 CHICAGO, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$613,406
Expenses 2024
$577,857

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
PO BOX 15123

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

THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY IS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE CITIZENS ABOUT PUBLIC POLICY AND TO ORGANIZE THEM TO ACT IN THE PUBLIC ARENA TO ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL, RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR THE COMMON GOOD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY IS DEVOTED TO ORGANIZING WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICIES THAT PUT THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AHEAD OF CORPORATE PROFITS AND THE INTERESTS OF THE VERY RICH.

  • ORGANIZING WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICIES, INCLUDING REFORMS TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, TAX POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. TPL EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ON THESE ISSUES, ADVOCATES FOR POLICY SOLUTIONS INCLUDING LEGISLATION AND PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CANDIDATES STAND ON THESE ISSUES.

    Expenses $455,389 · Grants $38,280

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.

  • Cate Readling

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sylvia Kidder

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Straight

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erin Coleman-Branchaud

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William P Tanzman

    PRESIDENT/EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $99,729
    From this org
    $92,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,976
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $613,406
    Expenses
    $577,857
    Contributions
    $611,706
    Grants paid
    $38,280
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $510,173
    Expenses
    $502,332
    Contributions
    $510,173
    Grants paid
    $15,208
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $307,900
    Expenses
    $690,157
    Contributions
    $306,089
    Grants paid
    $24,250

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
    $898,150
    Expenses
    $419,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $768,631

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $645,513
    Expenses
    $610,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $250,283

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,228
    Expenses
    $246,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,041

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $293,979
    Expenses
    $247,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,473

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,158
    Expenses
    $217,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,819

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $269,562
    Expenses
    $323,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,572

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

  • THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY PAC

    $24,000

    2022 ELECTION SUPPORT

  • THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY PAC

    $0

    2024 ELECTION SUPPORT

  • TPL JUSTICE PAC

    $0

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY PAC

    $0

    2023 ELECTION SUPPORT

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Grants received

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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