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EIN 36-2934709 EVANSTON, IL

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Revenue 2023
$1,112,147
Expenses 2023
$1,329,732

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L22Z
Classification
1000
Street
1740 RIDGE AVE STE 117

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

TO PROMOTE FAIR AND INCLUSIVE HOUSING IN NORTH AND NORTHWEST SUBURBAN CHICAGO.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FAIR HOUSING TESTING AND ENFORCEMENT; HUD CERTIFIED COUNSELING SERVICES FOR RENTERS AND HOMEOWNERS; ADVOCACY FOR FAIR AND INCLUSIVE HOUSING IN NORTH AND NORTHWEST SUBURBAN CHICAGO.

  • FAIR HOUSING TESTING AND ENFORCEMENT; HUD CERTIFIED COUNSELING SERVICES FOR RENTERS AND HOMEOWNERS; ADVOCACY FOR FAIR AND INCLUSIVE HOUSING IN NORTH AND NORTHWEST SUBURBAN CHICAGO.

    Expenses $1,051,181 · Grants $120,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

  • Cheryl Lawrence

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $129,999
    From this org
    $129,999
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Connie Berman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Herbert Brenner

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jessica Flores

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carol Golder

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Klingher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Love

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Grace Miya

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rose Shapiro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roger Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,112,147
    Expenses
    $1,329,732
    Contributions
    $961,672
    Grants paid
    $120,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,219,454
    Expenses
    $1,215,294
    Contributions
    $1,083,403
    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
    $2,117,252
    Expenses
    $1,131,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,402,303

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $989,534
    Expenses
    $805,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $512,117

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $766,092
    Expenses
    $731,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,320

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $683,238
    Expenses
    $652,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,208

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,654
    Expenses
    $721,044
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,524

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $777,008
    Expenses
    $753,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $577,807

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,072,956
    Expenses
    $949,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $521,099

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $809,422
    Expenses
    $823,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $524,874

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.