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BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS

EIN 36-3715155 RIVERWOODS, IL

Revenue 2025
$2,983,331
Expenses 2025
$1,930,082

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C193
Classification
1000
Street
21850 N RIVERWOODS RD

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

LOCATED IN THE HISTORIC RYERSON FAMILY HOME AMOUNG PRISTINE WOODLANDS, BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS PROMOTES THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURE FOR NURTURING PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, CULTIVATING CREATIVITY, AND INSPIRING LEARNING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEEKS TO PROMOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURE FOR NURTURING PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, CULTIVATING CREATIVITY, AND INSPIRING LEARNING.

  • SMITH NATURE SYMPOSIUM - FOR 40 YEARS, THE SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN AN OCCASION TO CELEBRATE NATURE AND SPEND THE EVENING WITH LUMINARIES WHO HAVE MADE A MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCIENCE OF CONSERVATION AND DEEPENED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD. FROM ROGER TORY PETERSON TO SIBYLLE AND ROBERT REDFORD, THE EVENT HONOREES HAVE REPRESENTED THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED NATURE LEADERS IN THE COUNTRY. THE SYMPOSIUM MEMORIALIZES THE SIGNIFICANT CIVIC LEGACY OF HERMON DUNLAP AND ELLEN THORNE SMITH, WHO DONATED THEIR LAND AND CABIN TO HELP FORM RYERSON WOODS.

    Expenses $112,933 · Revenue $21,820

  • ART PROGRAMS - AT EASE VETERANS PROGRAM:BRUSHWOOD CENTER'S AT EASE PROGRAM IS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO EMPOWER MILITARY VETERANS' WELLBEING THROUGH A SERIES OF NATURE-BASED ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS. THIS PROGRAM IS OFFERED AT NO CHARGE TO MILITARY VETERANS THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS. AT EASE BUILDS ON RESEARCH SHOWING THAT EXPOSURE TO NATURE AND THE ARTS IMPROVES MENTAL HEALTH, SELF-ESTEEM, AND OTHER OBSTACLES THAT VETERANS FACE FROM THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF MILITARY SERVICE, WHILE ALSO LEARNING A NEW SKILL AND HOBBY.YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS:THE GOALS OF BRUSHWOOD CENTER'S YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS ARE TO PROVIDE PARTICIPANTS FROM LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES WITH NATURE-INSPIRED ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ABOUT LOCAL WOODLANDS AND TO EXPERIENCE THE MANY HEALTH BENEFITS OF NATURE. BRUSHWOOD CENTER EMPLOYS CUSTOMIZED, BILINGUAL PROGRAMS TO REACH 600 YOUTH IN COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHERN CHICAGO REGION.

    Expenses $36,579 · Revenue $2,409

  • Expenses $1,447,073 · Revenue $12,895

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.

  • MARTHA TWADDLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GAIL STURM

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CELESTE FLORES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LORRA RUDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHELLE CRONIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ROBERT K HEINRICH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEAN MEILINGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUZANNE MALEC-MCKENNA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DISHA NARANG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RUTH ALDERMAN SCHLOSSBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANEA D HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CATHERINE GAME

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $185,850
    From this org
    $185,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $185,850
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $185,850

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,983,331
    Expenses
    $1,930,082
    Contributions
    $2,925,152
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,722,522
    Expenses
    $1,844,776
    Contributions
    $3,677,658
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,489,118
    Expenses
    $1,578,245
    Contributions
    $2,504,221
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,423,814
    Expenses
    $1,324,664
    Contributions
    $1,404,655
    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
    $2,433,955
    Expenses
    $725,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,132,453

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $650,475
    Expenses
    $576,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $470,689

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,668
    Expenses
    $505,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,178

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,362
    Expenses
    $288,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,402

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $390,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,344

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.