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CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION

EIN 36-0898927 LEMONT, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$9,296,554
Expenses 2024
$8,726,451

Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
11855 ARCHER AVE

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

9 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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 CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION IS PRIMARILY ENGAGED IN FOSTERING, PROMOTING, AND ADVANCING THE GAME OF GOLF AND ITS ATTENDANT CIVIC, CHARITABLE, AND ATHLETIC ASPECTS AND PURPOSES THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS AND PARTS OF INDIANA, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION IS THE REGIONAL GOVERNING BODY FOR AMATEUR GOLF IN ILLINOIS AND IS PRIMARILY ENGAGED IN PROVIDING VARIOUS SERVICES TO GOLF CLUBS INCLUDING USGA RATING AND MEASURING SERVICES, AND TO INDIVIDUAL GOLFERS INCLUDING A USGA HANDICAP AND COMPETITIVE PLAYING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS AND PARTS OF INDIANA, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN.

  • PROVIDES MEMBER BENEFITS TO MEMBER CLUBS AND INDIVIDUAL GOLFERS IN ILLINOIS AND PARTS OF INDIANA, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY 119,000 MEMBER GOLFERS AND 412 MEMBER CLUBS.

    Expenses $4,044,463 · Revenue $5,722,064

  • SPONSORS AND CONDUCTS MORE THAN 35 TOURNAMENTS FOR AMATEUR GOLFERS AT MEMBER GOLF COURSES.

    Expenses $863,732 · Revenue $614,678

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDING TURF GRASS RESEARCH, GOLF COURSE RATINGS, EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS, GOLF TRIPS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Expenses $1,508,625 · Grants $141,062 · Revenue $1,159,778

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.

  • Thomas Gehr

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Rathgeber

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Nass

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Michael Sharkey

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bill Callahan

    VICE PRESIDENT AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ward Hamm

    SECOND VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Joe Salierno

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Fraser

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dwight Erskine

    VICE PRESIDENT AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Al Reid

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Edward W Mulcahy

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • George P Jameson

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory J Grygiel

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Debbie Vansistine

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Al Brown

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill A Fates

    FIRST VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Lindy Edmund

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Dowdle

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ronnie Oakes

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Hammond

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • John Donofrio

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin O'Connor

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Coldiron

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Childers

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • William Loeb

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $9,296,554
    Expenses
    $8,726,451
    Contributions
    $675,491
    Grants paid
    $141,062
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,369,776
    Expenses
    $8,172,267
    Contributions
    $540,421
    Grants paid
    $61,557
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,813,133
    Expenses
    $6,849,487
    Contributions
    $130,000
    Grants paid
    $310,900

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
    $6,122,099
    Expenses
    $6,006,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,374,477
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,446,204
    Expenses
    $4,349,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,835,178
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,449,427
    Expenses
    $3,928,660
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,385,376
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,384,328
    Expenses
    $3,976,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,747,252
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,778,227
    Expenses
    $3,541,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,694,404
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,761,956
    Expenses
    $3,577,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,578,964
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,698,372
    Expenses
    $3,445,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,156,313
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,832,808
    Expenses
    $3,579,474
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,885,050
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,994,446
    Expenses
    $3,322,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,682,810
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,182,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,412,500

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • CHICAGO OPEN INC

    C · GOLF TOURNAMENT OPERATIONS · IL · 100% owned · controlled entity

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.