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BLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING NFP

EIN 20-4280294 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$2,069,279
Expenses 2024
$1,700,599

Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C20
Classification
1000
Street
6735 S SOUTH CHICAGO 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

THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING SERVICE TO INDIVIDUALS-FARMERS,RANCHERS,HOME OWNERS AND MANAGERS AND OWNERS OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT TEACH CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENCY THE UTIIZATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES.

  • ILLINOIS EATS-PROVIDED FOOD TO 6000 PEOPLE THAT WAS GROWN BY SMALL DISADVANTAGED FARMS

    Expenses $526,700 · Grants $526,700 · Revenue $526,700

  • A 250 FAMILY HYPERTENSION INTERVENTION IN FOUR SOUTHERN COOK COUNTY COMMUNITIES

    Expenses $336,461 · Grants $336,461 · Revenue $336,461

  • BLACK OAKS TRAINED SIX APPRENTICES IN RENEWABLE ENERGY, SUSTAINABLE BUILDING, SOLAR AND RESILIANCE

    Expenses $336,461 · Grants $336,461 · Revenue $336,461

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.

  • Rachel Lindsey

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Pancho McFarland

    BOARD CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ramona Westbrook

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Osei Andrews Hutchinson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Jifunza Wright Carter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $80,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Fred Carter

    CO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $80,000
    Other
    $0
    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
    $2,069,279
    Expenses
    $1,700,599
    Contributions
    $1,988,453
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,392,328
    Expenses
    $970,589
    Contributions
    $1,339,507
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,260,707
    Expenses
    $906,335
    Contributions
    $1,251,814
    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
    $1,251,747
    Expenses
    $616,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,326,661

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $472,220
    Expenses
    $434,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $594,761

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $240,230
    Expenses
    $251,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,313

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $105,365
    Expenses
    $104,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,296

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $97,681
    Expenses
    $105,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,150

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $143,506
    Expenses
    $150,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,990

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $131,058
    Expenses
    $132,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,345

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $236,794
    Expenses
    $266,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,173

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,233
    Expenses
    $90,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,314

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,121
    Expenses
    $83,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,918

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Fredrick D Carter
Mailing address
10249 S Halsted StChicago IL 60628
Website
www.blackoakscenter.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.