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OPEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

EIN 38-3936972 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$441,473
Expenses 2024
$491,058

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
A23
Classification
1000
Street
2214 S SACRAMENTO 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To provide a space where all can come together to share, showcase, and refine their artistice talents while connecting their growth to the community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide a space where all can come together to share showcase and refine their artistic talents while connecting their growth to the community

  • Artecito is a bimonthly workshp presented via zoom and in person at different community locations. This project was created in collaborati with Lincoln Park Zoo and presented 26 workshops in the last calendar year. Participants explore different plants and wildlife through a presentation and reinforced through the Arts.

    Expenses $60,000

  • La Plaza de Marshall Square, a community-led vision to transform one of Chicagos historic boulevards into a vibrant public plaza inspired plazas and central gardens found throughout the world. Residents have consistently shared the importance of green spaces, public gathering areas, and family centered environments. La Plaza seeks to honor these traditions while crating a welcoming and culturally rooted public space in Marshall Square.

    Expenses $50,000

  • The LAWNDALE Project serves as a bridge between North Lawndale and South Lawndale communities, harnessing the transformative power of the Arts to foster connection and unity. By bringing these neighbohoods together, the project seeks to create a cohesive community where residents can celebrate their shared heritage and creativity.

    Expenses $21,285

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.

  • Jorge O Magana

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ivan Torres

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Reyna Hernandez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carmen Vergara

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jaime Arteaga

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $441,473
    Expenses
    $491,058
    Contributions
    $350,265
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $289,136
    Expenses
    $290,429
    Contributions
    $212,791
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $475,743
    Expenses
    $463,979
    Contributions
    $428,907
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $202,960
    Expenses
    $282,972
    Contributions
    $141,885
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $121,771
    Expenses
    $96,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,938

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Omar Magana
Mailing address
2214 South Sacramento AveChicago IL 60623
Website
opencenterforthearts.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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.