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THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION

EIN 31-1746890 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$2,809,226
Expenses 2025
$1,884,601

Program services were 74.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N6A
Classification
1000
Street
3701 RECREATION DR STE 2

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

SEE SCHEDULE O

Activities or mission (Part I)

FIRST TEE IS DEDICATED TO IMPACTING THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT BUILD CHARACTER, INSTILL LIFE-ENHANCING VALUES AND PROMOTE HEALTHY CHOICES THROUGH THE GAME OF GOLF.

  • GOLF IS JUST PART OF FIRST TEE. THROUGH OUR PROGRAM THAT STRENGTHENS CHARACTER, KIDS WILL LEARN LIFE SKILLS LIKE, UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING EMOTIONS, RESOLVING CONFLICTS, SETTING UP STEP BY STEP GOALS, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE AND APPRECIATING DIVERSITY THAT WILL STAY WITH THEM INTO THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

    Expenses $1,339,176

  • WAVELAND PROJECT - ADJACENT TO THE SYDNEY R MAROVITZ GOLF COURSE, OUR NEW KIDS CLUBHOUSE AND SHORT GAME WILL ENABLE US TO PROVIDE YEAR-ROUND ACCESSIBILITY TO FREE AND LOW COST PROGRAMS TO YOUTH OF ALL BACKGROUNDS

    Expenses $55,799

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.

  • JILL SYLVESTER

    INTERIM CEO

    Total calculated
    $160,612
    From this org
    $160,612
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,612
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $160,612

  • BRANDON WHITE

    VP of Programming and Operations

    Total calculated
    $112,395
    From this org
    $112,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • KEVIN CALLAHAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES WADDELL

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TODD SIMPSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON PRITZKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHERINE JEMSEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSHUA LESNIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER MERRILL

    DEVELOPMENT CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL AFFELDT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOUIS GUTZWILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICKI BEDNAR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT CLARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN PODJASEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW STARK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK GOSS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONALD PULLIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LESLEY BAKER

    GOV NOM CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THADDEUS MALIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID MOE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID PEPPING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM STADLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDY BOSMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE BRENNAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN MCGHEE

    DIRECTOR

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,809,226
    Expenses
    $1,884,601
    Contributions
    $1,815,626
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,909,722
    Expenses
    $1,902,657
    Contributions
    $1,500,168
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,960,641
    Expenses
    $1,663,588
    Contributions
    $1,452,633
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,384,431
    Expenses
    $1,375,031
    Contributions
    $1,137,851
    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
    $2,819,301
    Expenses
    $812,081
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,244,614

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,930
    Expenses
    $577,177
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,386,267

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,353
    Expenses
    $742,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,005,699

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $696,719
    Expenses
    $797,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,343,856

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $762,387
    Expenses
    $923,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,449,906

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $718,998
    Expenses
    $743,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,609,461

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