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CHICAGO FILMMAKERS

EIN 36-2885210 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2025
$711,468
Expenses 2025
$653,742

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A31Z
Classification
2000
Street
1326 W HOLLYWOOD 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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To serve independent film and digital video artists by supporting the creation and dissemination of new media arts works, and to serve Chicago audiences by screening artistically innovative, socially relevant, and diverse films and videos.

  • The Organization nurtures the development of aspiring filmmakers of all ages by offering classes, workshops, and summer camps empowers artists to create new work through production grants, equipment access, fiscal sponsorship, and other services and resources and encourages the professional advancement of media artists through seminars, panel discussions, lectures, rough-cut and open screenings, as well as networking events and other opportunities for artistic exchange. The Organization develops diverse audiences through its year-round weekly film and video exhibition programs and its two annual film festivals, Reeling the Chicago LGBTQ International Film Festival and The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival.

    Expenses $516,892 · Revenue $308,439

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Brenda Webb

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $115,403
    From this org
    $115,403
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Adam Salasak

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Riese Rubin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter Kuttner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Clayborn Cain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Floyd Webb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gabriel Zabala

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarada Duvvuri

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $711,468
    Expenses
    $653,742
    Contributions
    $391,685
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $590,049
    Expenses
    $671,038
    Contributions
    $344,875
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $678,564
    Expenses
    $618,044
    Contributions
    $455,382
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $767,486
    Expenses
    $746,073
    Contributions
    $499,665
    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
    $764,058
    Expenses
    $744,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,683,095

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $830,333
    Expenses
    $629,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,634,226

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $722,707
    Expenses
    $831,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,451,498

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $829,429
    Expenses
    $757,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,551,623

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

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 11 November 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.