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INTERNATIONAL VISITORS CENTER OF CHICAGO

EIN 36-2406639 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,692,646
Expenses 2024
$1,952,800

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q230
Classification
1200
Street
303 E WACKER DR STE 2108

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

WorldChicago serves as a center for citizen diplomacy between Chicagoans and visitors from around the world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Serves as a center for citizen diplomacy between Chicagoans and visitors from around the world

  • The Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative brings young entrepreneurs to the U.S. for an intensive one-month fellowship in a start-up or small to mid-sized business in one of 9 U.S. cities. This program develops leadership and the entrepreneurial mindset in these Fellows and builds transatlantic partnerships between the U.S. and Europe.

    Expenses $1,734,017 · Grants $125,462 · Revenue $150,876

  • The Youth Leadership Program fosters mutual understanding, respect, and civic engagement among young Americans and their international peers. During the exchanges, students and educators participate in workshops, community service activities, team building exercises, meetings with community leaders, leadership development, and live with American families. Upon their return home, the students apply what they have learned to implement projects that serve needs in their communities.

  • The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S. Department of State's premier professional exchange program. Through short-term visits to the United States, current and emerging foreign leaders in a variety of fields experience this country firsthand and cultivate lasting relationships with their American counterparts. Professional meetings reflect the participants' professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States. The majority of WorldChicago's international delegates are participants in this program.

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.

  • Lisa Harwood

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Rebecca Wellisch

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sevil Kutay

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Anthony Preston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernard Ramos

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Wellman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donna Lindquist

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Petitpren

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joel Levin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Brown

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stacey Mansker-Young

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tatyana Sergeyeva

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Usha Raj

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Parfenoff

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jennifer Dixon

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $143,572
    From this org
    $129,065
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,507
    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
    $1,692,646
    Expenses
    $1,952,800
    Contributions
    $1,547,204
    Grants paid
    $125,462
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,489,901
    Expenses
    $2,737,528
    Contributions
    $2,471,441
    Grants paid
    $153,678
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,221,379
    Expenses
    $2,100,028
    Contributions
    $2,164,911
    Grants paid
    $110,863

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
    $1,076,419
    Expenses
    $1,128,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,018,312

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $786,702
    Expenses
    $751,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,053,759

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,477,345
    Expenses
    $1,432,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,025,313

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,140,712
    Expenses
    $1,177,979
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,285,944

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

  • Global Ties Detroit

    $21,843

    2023 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • Global Ties ABQ

    $20,636

    2023 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • WorldDenver

    $20,499

    2023 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • Global Ties Detroit

    $19,959

    2022 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • San Diego Diplomacy Council

    $19,695

    2024 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • World Affairs Council

    $19,559

    2023 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • World Affairs Council

    $19,493

    2024 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • International House of Metrolina

    $19,321

    2024 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • Global Ties Detroit

    $19,249

    2024 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

  • Global Ties Alabama

    $18,276

    2023 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, the U.S. Department of State's flagship program for emerging European entrepreneurs

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.