- Revenue 2024
- $5,843,080
- Expenses 2024
- $4,898,255
Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A700
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 125 S CLARK ST STE 650
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).
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.
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RIKEESHA PHELON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LAURENCE SOPHIAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIDGET HAYMAN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MYRIAM DEL ANGEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANTOINETTE BURTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JC AEVALIOTIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JENNIFER M BRIER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ERICA HUBBARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN MANNING
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HEATHER NORMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TAWA MITCHELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JULIO PAZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LOU SANDOVAL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NAKEA WEST
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DEBORAH EPSTEIN
LIFE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALTON B HARRIS
LIFE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK DENZLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIAN C JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RAJEEV KINRA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN MANNING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GABRIELLE LYON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $214,079
- From this org
- $205,428
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,651
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $205,128
- Bonus
- $300
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,651
- Filer's total
- $214,079
-
VICKI GARZA
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
- Total calculated
- $137,000
- From this org
- $137,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
MORVEN ELIZABETH HIGGINS
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATION
- Total calculated
- $137,509
- From this org
- $130,200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,309
- Hours/week
- 40
-
JANE BEACHY
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
- Total calculated
- $116,774
- From this org
- $116,774
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
ROBERT DESMOND WHITE
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
- Total calculated
- $113,616
- From this org
- $113,616
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,843,080
- Expenses
- $4,898,255
- Contributions
- $6,039,910
- Grants paid
- $605,738
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,639,982
- Expenses
- $4,985,993
- Contributions
- $5,677,521
- Grants paid
- $666,800
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,165,542
- Expenses
- $4,154,768
- Contributions
- $4,239,232
- Grants paid
- $639,150
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
- $6,335,999
- Expenses
- $3,937,026
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,489,432
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,480,636
- Expenses
- $4,652,054
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,155,468
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,480,636
- Expenses
- $4,652,054
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,155,468
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,123,045
- Expenses
- $3,339,989
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,292,870
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,426,403
- Expenses
- $3,886,893
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,157,091
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,612,866
- Expenses
- $3,758,519
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,623,653
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 2021
- Tax period
- 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022
- Principal officer
- Lorenzo Savage
- Mailing address
- 518 Missouri Ave Suite BEast St Louis IL 62201
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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
-
$26,000
2024 ENVISIONING JUSTICE & FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVES GRANT
-
$25,300
2024 FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVES
-
$20,250
2024 ENVISIONING JUSTICE & FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVES GRANT
-
THE HUB-ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
$20,000
2022 2023 FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVE GRANT
-
$20,000
2022 2023 FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVE GRANT
-
$20,000
2024 ENVISIONING JUSTICE GRANT
-
$19,550
2022 2023 ENVISIONING JUSTICE GRANT
-
$18,000
2022 2023 ENVISIONING JUSTICE GRANT
-
$18,000
2024 ENVISIONING JUSTICE GRANT
-
$15,300
2024 GENERAL OPERATING & FOREGROUND RURAL INITIATIVES GRANT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
2022 GENERAL
-
$445,000
2022 support for building a hub model to sustain rural humanities and arts communities in Illinois
-
$345,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
FED OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
$200,000
2025 MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
-
$114,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
FED OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
$30,000
2024 SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250
-
$20,000
2022 Big Read
-
$20,000
2024 NEA Big Read 2023-2024
-
$18,900
2023 Big Read
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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.