- Revenue 2024
- $493,211
- Expenses 2024
- $720,102
Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S30
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 13 N GENESEE 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 · 2024
Mission
We strengthen communities through local entrepreneurship, transformative real estate development, and access to capital.
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Small Business Support (formerly program development): This program provides technical assistance and various forms of small business support. Key accomplishments
Expenses $606,020 · Grants $258,813
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Innovates: The GWDC Facility is a remodeled, repurposed 8,000 square foot former police sub-station in downtown Waukegan containing conference/training rooms, meeting spaces, and state-of-the-art networking and telecommunications systems. This facility currently serves as an economic development center. In this fiscal year, it housed all of GWDC's programs, as well as office space for local nonprofits and small businesses.
Expenses $64,508 · Revenue $15,701
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GWDC Celebrates - A series of multicultural festivals and events that bring residents together to celebrate, build community, and enjoy local downtown and waterfront spaces. No in-person events were held during the 2022 tax year, but planning is in place for an event during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
Expenses $5,339
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.
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Matthew Hixon
Board Treasuer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Carrie Espinosa
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Caryn Kahn
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brandon Ewing
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Shai Lothan
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Darren Miller
Board Secretary-General
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $493,211
- Expenses
- $720,102
- Contributions
- $477,509
- Grants paid
- $258,813
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2023
- Revenue
- $457,278
- Expenses
- $585,864
- Contributions
- $460,648
- Grants paid
- $8,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $746,640
- Expenses
- $652,673
- Contributions
- $733,230
- Grants paid
- $112,938
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $267,745
- Expenses
- $334,061
- Assets (EOY)
- $553,171
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $281,770
- Expenses
- $132,279
- Assets (EOY)
- $347,646
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $281,926
- Expenses
- $416,644
- Assets (EOY)
- $350,638
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $223,636
- Expenses
- $195,033
- Assets (EOY)
- $327,977
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2015 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $11,223
- Expenses
- $276,550
- Assets (EOY)
- $169,306
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2014 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $87,716
- Expenses
- $164,345
- Assets (EOY)
- $96,818
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2013 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $34,940
- Expenses
- $52,345
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,281
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
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2024 To support small business development in Illinios
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2022 Subawardee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
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WAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
$8,000
2023 TO ASSIST IN FURTHERING THE MISSION OF THE WAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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.