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NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY

EIN 36-1557840 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$102,582,608
Expenses 2024
$104,311,197

Program services were 89.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
7000
Street
3225 W FOSTER AVE

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH (EIN 36-2167730). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY IS AN ACCREDITED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THE SCHOOL OFFERS OVER 65 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS PRE-PROFESSIONAL AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)OUR MISSION IS TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR LIVES OF SIGNIFICANCE AND SERVICE THROUGH LIBERAL ARTS AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR LIVES OF SIGNIFICANCE AND SERVICE THROUGH LIBERAL ARTS & THEOLOGICAL STUDIES.

  • NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY PROVIDED UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS TO APPROXIMATELY 2,500 STUDENTS DURING THE YEAR. OF THIS TOTAL, APPROXIMATELY 1,800 STUDENTS WERE UNDERGRADUATES AND 700 WERE GRADUATE AND ADULT STUDENTS. THE UNIVERSITY OFFERED 42 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE MAJORS PLUS 40 CONCENTRATIONS AND PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS. THE UNIVERSITY ALSO OFFERED GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, NURSING, EDUCATION, CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, MUSIC, AND THEOLOGY. IN ADDITION, THE UNIVERSITY ALSO PROVIDED RESIDENTIAL LIVING FOR APPROXIMATELY 800 STUDENTS.

    Expenses $93,010,328 · Grants $31,967,315 · Revenue $79,985,485

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Mary Surridge

    PRESIDENT AND EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $408,830
    From this org
    $311,278
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $97,552
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $310,090
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,188
    Deferred
    $32,145
    Nontaxable benefits
    $65,407
    Filer's total
    $408,830
  • Tammy Swanson-Draheim

    ECC PRESIDENT EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $244,141
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $108,641
    Other
    $135,500
    Hours/week
    5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $108,245 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $396 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $57,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $78,000 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $244,141 related
  • David Otfinoski

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jay Carstenbrock

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Mary C Miller

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dawn Helwig

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Karen Stein

    EEC EXEC BRD LIAISON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sally Carlson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sam Chang

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gregory Crawford

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Marvin Curtis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • David Dwight

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Beth Fredrickson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Rev Dr Catherine Gillard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Arriel Gray Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Michael Harper

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Donna Harris

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul T Johnson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gricel Medina

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Peter Nelson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Erin Oleniczak

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Aaron Olsen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Christine Rosell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kristian Werling

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Ann Wiesbrock

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $102,582,608
    Expenses
    $104,311,197
    Contributions
    $13,562,292
    Grants paid
    $31,967,315
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $95,145,860
    Expenses
    $97,897,609
    Contributions
    $10,404,115
    Grants paid
    $31,174,870
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $91,766,057
    Expenses
    $95,413,706
    Contributions
    $8,040,218
    Grants paid
    $30,303,432

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $81,966,278
    Expenses
    $91,516,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $326,942,477
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $81,966,278
    Expenses
    $91,516,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $326,942,477
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,494,659
    Expenses
    $92,946,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,334,574
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $92,534,349
    Expenses
    $97,612,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,400,947
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $91,665,050
    Expenses
    $95,408,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $312,655,255
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,442,905
    Expenses
    $85,997,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,508,227

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.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.