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HAVE DREAMS

EIN 36-4078008 PARK RIDGE, IL

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Revenue 2025
$2,166,626
Expenses 2025
$2,214,770

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
J20
Classification
1000
Street
515 BUSSE HWY STE 150

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 · 2025

Mission

HAVE DREAMS ASPIRES TO HELP INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) LEARN, FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY AND SOCIALIZE, SO THAT THEY MAY REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND DEVELOP INTO CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

HAVE DREAMS OFFERS PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT BUILD COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL AND INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS.

  • VOCATIONAL: COMPRISED OF 3 MAIN PARTS: LIFE SCILS, PROJECT SEARCH AND HAVE DREAMS ACADEMY FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH AN AUTISM DIAGNOSIS WHO ARE YOUNG ADULTS. HAVE DREAMS OFFERS ONE-ON-ONE COUNSELING TO INDIVIDUALS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM AS WELL AS TO PARENTS AND/OR CAREGIVERS OF THOSE WITH ASD. PARTICIPANTS DEVELOP CRUCIAL VOCATIONAL SKILLS, JOB PREPARATION AND TRAINING, AS WELL AS COMMUNITY OUTINGS. PARTICIPANTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPLEMENT WORK SKILLS THEY DEVELOP DURING THE PROGRAM AND GENERALIZE THESE SKILLS IN APPROPRIATE WORK SETTINGS. THERE IS ALSO A CONCENTRATION ON SOCIALIZATION THROUGH FIELD TRIPS, STRUCTURED SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATION IN AN EXTENSIVE FITNESS AND HEALTHY LIVING PROGRAM. THERE WERE 24 LIFESCILS PARTICIPANTS AND 12 HAVE DREAMS ACADEMY PARTICIPANTS DURING THE YEAR.

    Expenses $713,301 · Revenue $613,609

  • CLINICAL SERVICES: HAVE DREAMS OFFERS ONE-ON-ONE COUNSELING TO INDIVIDUALS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM (AGES 10+) AS WELL AS TO PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, FAMILY MEMBERS, AND PARTNERS OF THOSE WITH ASD. THERE WERE 106 PARTICIPANTS WHO SERVED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

    Expenses $378,688 · Revenue $79,390

  • TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATIONS: AUTISM RELATED TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES AND PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE STATE OF ILLINOIS INCLUDING 4-3-DAY TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS. THESE TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTION REGARDING STRUCTURED TEACHING FOR CHILDREN ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM. A TOTAL OF 6 TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS WERE HELD SERVING 222 PARTICIPANTS. THERE WERE ALSO ONLINE TRAININGS OFFERED AS WELL AS INTERACTIVE CONSULTATIONS, OBSERVATIONS, AND TRAININGS DONE WITH TEACHING PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE CHICAGOLAND AREA AT THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.

    Expenses $365,459 · Revenue $93,666

  • CLASSES: SCILS IS A COMMUNICATION AND LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES TRAINING AND SUPPORT IN INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AN AUTISTIC DIAGNOSIS. CLASSES ARE HELD IN FALL, WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER AND CAMP SESSIONS, WITH 10 TO 20 CLASSES PER SESSION AND ONE TO TWO CLASSES PER WEEK. CLASSES ARE HELD IN PARK RIDGE AND EVANSTON. THERE WERE 77 TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN EVANSTON AND 40 PARTICIPANTS IN PARK RIDGE.

    Expenses $103,344 · Revenue $80,659

  • RENTAL OF OFFICE SPACE TO PSYCHOLOGIST AND MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE.

    Revenue $15,398

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Creevy

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Anne Egger

    SECRETARY (THRU 01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Devlin

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andy Bonk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Bolton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Cassidy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Gustafson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peggy Labern

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dana Fenceroy

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $147,302
    From this org
    $119,940
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,362
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kristina Johnsen

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $41,198
    From this org
    $41,198
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Daniel Woodall

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE (THRU 08/25)

    Total calculated
    $45,467
    From this org
    $40,368
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,099
    Hours/week
    30

  • Cathy McCarthy

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $28,482
    From this org
    $28,482
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    24

  • Roberta Goldman

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $103,296
    From this org
    $103,270
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,166,626
    Expenses
    $2,214,770
    Contributions
    $1,030,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,089,870
    Expenses
    $1,994,413
    Contributions
    $1,003,704
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,795,898
    Expenses
    $1,932,635
    Contributions
    $1,152,208
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,847,055
    Expenses
    $1,769,726
    Contributions
    $1,014,951
    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
    $2,034,283
    Expenses
    $1,580,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,167,972

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,595,687
    Expenses
    $1,468,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $741,819

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,424,444
    Expenses
    $1,680,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,697

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,867,657
    Expenses
    $1,657,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $552,753

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,765,454
    Expenses
    $1,730,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,488

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

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 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.