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ADVOCATES FOR ILLINOIS CHILDREN

EIN 88-2843645 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2023
$221,702
Expenses 2023
$355,098

Program services were 83.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
200 W MADISON ST STE 300

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).

Other organizations at this address

11 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN ILLINOIS BY BRINGING ABOUT SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN PUBLIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH, POLICY ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH.

  • Held forums on family economic support on inequities in household income by race and ethnicity.

    Expenses $59,504 · Revenue $47,606

  • Lead Youth Public Policy Leadership Program to encourage civic involvement and provide students in underserved communities with the skills to become effective neighborhood spokespeople.

    Expenses $29,752 · Revenue $2,981

  • Perform research, advocacy, and coalition building.

    Expenses $208,266 · Revenue $166,620

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Tasha Green Cruzat

    President

    Total calculated
    $178,690
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,690
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mark Payne

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gwendolyn Oglesby-Odom

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christa Markgraff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Teresa Cordova

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jill Fraggos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kimberly Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Hill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Dustin Braunreiter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mitch Lifson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $106,861
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,861
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $221,702
    Expenses
    $355,098
    Contributions
    $217,207
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $58,319
    Expenses
    $17,175
    Contributions
    $58,319
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.