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GENDERCOOL PROJECT

EIN 82-1770892 HIGHLAND PARK, IL

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Revenue 2024
$1,187,172
Expenses 2024
$1,308,590

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
2000
Street
2070 GREEN BAY ROAD STE 153

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 GenderCool Project is a youth-led movement replacing misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences meeting transgender and non-binary young people who are thriving.

  • GenderCool is breaking through to millions of people who say they have never met a transgender or non-binary person by replacing misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences meeting transgender and non-binary young people who are thriving. The GenderCool Project works directly with corporations to provide services such as educational events, HR and Diversity and Inclusion consulting around how best to create an inclusiveworkplace for all employees, including those who identify as transgender and non-binary and for parent employees of transgender and non-binary young people. GenderCool helps to educate the general public through advertising campaigns, media placements, books and speaking opportunities to share stories around transgender and non-binary young people who are thriving.

    Expenses $1,067,818

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.

  • Jennifer Grosshandler

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $75,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $75,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • John Grosshandler

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $50,900
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $50,900
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25 + 25 related

  • Dr Vivienne Ming

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Erik Day

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Erin Uritis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Gia Parr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Landon Richie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

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
    $1,187,172
    Expenses
    $1,308,590
    Contributions
    $763,422
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,396,644
    Expenses
    $1,329,609
    Contributions
    $1,212,094
    Grants paid
    $103
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,375,037
    Expenses
    $1,516,643
    Contributions
    $1,368,467
    Grants paid
    $399

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
    $1,296,175
    Expenses
    $623,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $849,584

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,252
    Expenses
    $217,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,695

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $211,512
    Expenses
    $142,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,071

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 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Jennifer Grosshandler
Mailing address
1954 FIRST STREET 153HIGHLAND PARK IL 600353104
Website
GENDERCOOL.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.