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EXPERIMENTAL STATION

EIN 32-0017985 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$3,071,505
Expenses 2024
$3,261,695

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S99
Classification
1000
Street
6100 S BLACKSTONE 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 EXPERIMENTAL STATION WAS ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INITIATIVES OF ALL GENRES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ART AND DESIGN, INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL MODELS, FOOD, AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AND JOURNALISM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION IS TO BUILD INDEPENDENT CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. WE DO THIS BY FOSTERING A DYNAMIC ECOLOGY OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS, SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES. SINCE 2006, WE HAVE BOTH BUILT OUR OWN PROGRAMMING TO ADDRESS A VARIETY OF IDENTIFIED LOCAL NEEDS AND HAVE FOSTERED, HOSTED, AND SPONSORED NUMEROUS OTHER INITIATIVES.

  • LINK UP ILLINOIS PROVIDES FUNDING, TRAINING, AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO FARMERS MARKETS FOOD COOPERATIVES, MOBILE MARKETS, CORNER STORES, AND OTHER VENUES SELLING LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE TO IMPLEMENT LINK MATCH AT THEIR VENUES. LINK MATCH MATCHES THE VALUE OF SNAP/LINK PURCHASES,ALLOWING RECIPIENTS TO RECEIVE UP TO $25 OF FREE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES PER TRANSACTION AT FARMERS MARKETS AND $5 PER DAY IN GROCERY SETTINGS.

    Expenses $2,166,159 · Grants $1,485,767 · Revenue $107,300

  • THE 61ST STREET FARMERS MARKET WAS CREATED IN 2008 TO BRING HEALTHY FOOD AND FOOD EDUCATION TO THE WOODLAWN COMMUNITY. A LEADER IN ILLINOIS IN SERVING A LOW-INCOME POPULATION, THE MARKET ACCEPTS SNAP/ILLINOIS 'LINK', DOUBLES THE VALUE OF SNAP/LINK PURCHASES WITH LINK MATCH, AND OFFERS YEAR-ROUND AT-MARKET, IN-SCHOOL, AFTER-SCHOOL, AND ADULT FOOD EDUCATION.

    Expenses $266,440 · Revenue $23,648

  • BLACKSTONE BICYCLE WORKS PROVIDES YOUTH EDUCATION IN A BIKE SHOP SETTING. BLACKSTONE BICYCLE WORKS OFFERS FREE MECHANIC TRAINING, FREE BICYCLES, INTERNSHIPS, COLLEGE AND CAREER ADVISING, AND COLLEGE/VOCATIONAL SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Expenses $279,208 · Revenue $82,015

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.

  • MARTIN FRIEDMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • EMMITT HOUSE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • MULUBWA MUNKANTA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETH LOEB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • STEVE WIESENTHAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CORLISS KING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JILL INGRASSIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • RICHARD WRIGHT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CONSTANCE SPREEN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,858
    From this org
    $109,168
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,690
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAN PETERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $3,071,505
    Expenses
    $3,261,695
    Contributions
    $2,845,853
    Grants paid
    $1,485,767
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,197,963
    Expenses
    $3,073,469
    Contributions
    $2,994,718
    Grants paid
    $1,539,579
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,208,325
    Expenses
    $3,305,824
    Contributions
    $2,950,308
    Grants paid
    $1,628,518

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
    $2,920,468
    Expenses
    $2,164,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,624,397

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,377,855
    Expenses
    $2,427,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $888,026

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,652,499
    Expenses
    $1,694,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $789,981

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,721,751
    Expenses
    $1,678,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $769,406

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,021,131
    Expenses
    $882,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $424,988

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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