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ARAB AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK

EIN 36-4034958 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,016,139
Expenses 2024
$860,984

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O99
Classification
1000
Street
3148 W 63RD 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

The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities.Our vision is for a strong Arab American community whose members have the power to make decisions about actions and policies that affect their lives and have access to a range of social, political, cultural and economic opportunities in a context of equity and social justice.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Improve quality of life for low income Arab immigrants and Arab Americans living in Chicago area.

  • Adult education, youth programs, social services, mediation and crisis intervention, cultural competency training, leadership development and community organizing programs.

    Expenses $657,774 · Revenue $53,250

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Souzan Naser

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bassem Kawar

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louise Cainkar

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laila Farah

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nesreen Hasan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nadine Naber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hatem Abudayyeh

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $83,322
    From this org
    $78,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,572
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,016,139
    Expenses
    $860,984
    Contributions
    $1,016,139
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $957,209
    Expenses
    $904,666
    Contributions
    $955,511
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $833,261
    Expenses
    $716,497
    Contributions
    $832,416
    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
    $851,007
    Expenses
    $630,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $950,856

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,188
    Expenses
    $551,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $728,905

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,214
    Expenses
    $394,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $483,313

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $668,336
    Expenses
    $433,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $401,644

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $532,478
    Expenses
    $467,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $244,383

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $353,248
    Expenses
    $373,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,907

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,347
    Expenses
    $369,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,598

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,903
    Expenses
    $409,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,630

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $405,972
    Expenses
    $405,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,137

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $455,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,563

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.