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CHICAGO VOTES

EIN 46-0545127 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$1,183,890
Expenses 2025
$1,474,482

Program services were 56.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R40
Classification
2000
Street
410 S MICHIGAN AVE STE 801B

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

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government, through civic education, to young people from all corners of the city. We're creating a civic culture to make Chicago and Illinois a better place to be young, and in the process we're making democracy FUN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Leadership development and non partisan civic education.

  • Youth Leadership Development - Youth organizers were trained through internship and fellowship programs. These organizers registered voters and mobilized volunteers.

    Expenses $835,132 · Grants $87,871

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.

  • Troy Alim

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Zana Marino

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rebecca Petzel

    Treasurer - TERM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Jorge Arteaga

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Caleb Dunson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Anne Olson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Abby Pucker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Evie Thompson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Bernie Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Jennifer Dean

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $173,474
    From this org
    $154,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,099
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,263
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,836
    Filer's total
    $173,474

  • Steven Valles

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $199,847
    From this org
    $179,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,472
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,763
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,709
    Filer's total
    $199,847

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
    $1,183,890
    Expenses
    $1,474,482
    Contributions
    $1,138,201
    Grants paid
    $87,871
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,174,240
    Expenses
    $1,460,661
    Contributions
    $2,048,918
    Grants paid
    $35,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,467,228
    Expenses
    $1,685,664
    Contributions
    $1,132,486
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $806,990
    Expenses
    $1,577,163
    Contributions
    $699,570
    Grants paid
    $29,260

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
    $1,810,608
    Expenses
    $1,191,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,474,463

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,288,650
    Expenses
    $705,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $847,379

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $531,590
    Expenses
    $483,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,615

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,268
    Expenses
    $509,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,883

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $257,102
    Expenses
    $272,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,249

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,293
    Expenses
    $332,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,303

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $366,265
    Expenses
    $344,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,631

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

  • World Organizing Institute

    $50,000

    2025 General operating support for the No Borders civic-education and leadership initiative

  • MUD Theatre Project

    $11,000

    2025 Civics in Prison subgrant supporting peer-educator training and civic-education programming inside Illinois prisons, September-December 2025

  • Southside Together

    $10,000

    2024 Educating, connecting and empowering voting-age residents in Chicago

  • Healthy Hood

    $10,000

    2024 Educating, connecting and empowering voting-age residents in Chicago

  • Urban Gateways

    $9,260

    2022 Participation and membership in Illinois Youth Voice Collaborative and contribution to youth development work

Where these grants went next →

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 2025 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

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