- Revenue 2024
- $1,197,650
- Expenses 2024
- $1,286,914
Program services were 67.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- J22
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 329 W 18TH ST STE 714
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
Creating business for social enterprises with work force development programs that support and expand job opportunities for people with significant barriers to fair wage employment.
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The Organization expands markets for global social enterprise partners, and introduces their goods to new channels of distribution. By taking inventory and infusing these organizations with immediate capital, they can provide fair and sustainable wages, valuable services like healthcare, clean water, education, housing, and more for their artisans and crafters, leading to economic independence.
Expenses $873,504
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.
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HELEN ARKES
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MICHAEL ARKES
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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LAURI ALPER
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARY JEAN POGGE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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LUIS GUTIERREZ
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KEMPER POWELL
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARGIE MUCHIN
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JEFFREY A ZALUDA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,197,650
- Expenses
- $1,286,914
- Contributions
- $1,016,483
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,301,150
- Expenses
- $1,438,648
- Contributions
- $1,039,890
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,208,549
- Expenses
- $1,438,033
- Contributions
- $833,458
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,441,156
- Expenses
- $1,346,098
- Assets (EOY)
- $310,624
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $928,641
- Expenses
- $1,124,189
- Assets (EOY)
- $279,960
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,070,332
- Expenses
- $1,135,848
- Assets (EOY)
- $372,881
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,102,607
- Expenses
- $907,799
- Assets (EOY)
- $407,368
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $741,507
- Expenses
- $705,574
- Assets (EOY)
- $392,285
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2014 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $192,501
- Expenses
- $89,303
- Assets (EOY)
- $114,823
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 2013
- Tax period
- 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
- Principal officer
- Michael Arkes
- Mailing address
- 641 W Willow Unit 138Chicago IL 60614
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
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
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$35,680
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
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$30,830
2023 UNRESTRICTED
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$28,128
2022 UNRESTRICTED
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$24,500
2025 Program support
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$17,500
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$17,000
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$16,000
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE
$15,000
2022 Access to employment for those facing barriers
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2010.
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.