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EIN 36-3634360 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$3,374,785
Expenses 2024
$722,244

Program services were 76.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1550 S STATE ST STE 107

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

TO STRENGTHEN AND SUSTAIN PARTNER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS BY GENERATING NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE SO THAT MORE FAMILIES MAY EXPERIENCE THE BENEFIT FROM URBAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

  • THE FUNDS RAISED WILL BE DIVIDED AMONG THE FIFTEEN AFFILIATED CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IT SERVES, IN THE CONFIDENCE THAT EACH LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD KNOWS BEST AS TO WHICH PRIORITIES TO ADDRESS. MOST OFTEN, THE HIGHEST PRIORITY IS PROVIDING TUITION ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES IN NEED. OTHER PRIORITIES MAY INCLUDE EMERGENCY CAPITAL NEEDS OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS.

    Expenses $365,856 · Grants $295,435

  • THE ORGANIZATION NOW INCLUDES NEW TO YOU UPSCALE RESALE. PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK FOR CHRISTIANS INVOLVED IN PRIVATE, PUBLIC, AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN URBAN NORTH AMERICA.

    Expenses $183,010 · Revenue $414,727

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.

  • STEVE BLOM

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,450
    From this org
    $90,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • RYNE DEBOER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KEN ERFFMEYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LOU FAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • AMY GROENEWOLD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CLARENCE MEDEMA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANN VANDERWEELE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHRIS WIESEHAN

    PRESIDENT/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • TED WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $3,374,785
    Expenses
    $722,244
    Contributions
    $2,858,336
    Grants paid
    $295,435
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,035,388
    Expenses
    $713,310
    Contributions
    $221,857
    Grants paid
    $250,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,362,302
    Expenses
    $688,529
    Contributions
    $685,655
    Grants paid
    $194,500

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
    $648,865
    Expenses
    $515,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,107,412

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $365,105
    Expenses
    $418,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,070,023

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,099
    Expenses
    $393,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,799,048

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,469
    Expenses
    $359,737
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,954,072

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $337,894
    Expenses
    $447,237
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,003,221

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $606,672
    Expenses
    $386,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,036,694

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,426
    Expenses
    $372,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,535,811

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $881,077
    Expenses
    $316,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,655,112

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $260,299
    Expenses
    $247,206
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,282,634

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $348,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,192,389

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
David Larsen
Mailing address
1029 South Highland AvenueOak Park IL 60302

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.