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JOIN HANDS ESL INC

EIN 43-1607996 E SAINT LOUIS, IL

Revenue 2024
$93,827
Expenses 2024
$130,654

Program services were 58.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O20Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1429

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

SERVING UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS

  • Education Program: This program provides education advocacy services for all children and teens in the Dream Path and when possible scholarships to attend private school through the Alternative Education Program. There are currently 11 children in private education at schools including Sr. Thea Bowman Catholic School in East St. Louis, Althoff High School in Belleville, and Unity Lutheran School in East St. Louis.

    Expenses $1,827

  • The Family Mentoring Program: This program focuses on relationships, providing a pathway out of poverty for families through support, mentoring programs and education advocacy. Mentors and staff journey with children and families helping them navigate the many barriers to academic success that exist for children growing up in intergenerational poverty. It includes family mentoring, Teen Mentoring, and Education Advocacy.

    Expenses $15,820

  • Youth Programming: Through this program, Join Hands builds relationships, increases self esteem, and broadens the horizons of children 8-12 in two public housing projects in East St. Louis. Through the Girls Clubs and Boys Clubs and other youth classes and programs, we provide recreational, educational, and athletic opportunities to approximately 80 children, with a current volunteer to child ratio of 1:3 for activities and outings. This program helps to encourage young people to stay on the right track, do the right thing and focus on education. Volunteers act as role models and big brothers and big sisters, reflecting the beauty and worth of each child.

    Expenses $9,469

  • The Ubuntu Center for Peace: The Ubuntu Center is a place of peace, love, and hospitality. The center provides morning coffee and food to those in need. As volunteer power allows, the center offers mornings of reflection, yoga and meditation, and hopes in the near future to support efforts toward justice with our Ubuntu Movement. The Center has a peace chapel that is open to whoever has a need for some quiet space. The Ubuntu Center is an oasis in the midst of an often violent area. It is now home to all Join Hands programs, a resource for our families and children, and those in the neighborhood, as well as home to the programs administrative offices.

    Expenses $30,230

  • Teen Mentoring Program:Our Dream Path Teen Mentoring Program journeys with teenagers from our Family Mentoring fanilies, Teens who have aged out of our Girls, and Boys Clubs, and teen workers from Griffin Center After School Program in the local housing projects, helping them navigate the many, many barriers that exist to academic success for children growing up in intergenerational poverty.We provide

    Expenses $17,796

  • programming, individual mentoring and group activities to teenagers, providing a pathway to and through college graduation.

    Expenses $1,014

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.

  • Ellen Dauber

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sheila Burton

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Sonneman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Muriel Shackelford

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $93,827
    Expenses
    $130,654
    Contributions
    $89,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $640,877
    Expenses
    $754,135
    Contributions
    $640,877
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $980,796
    Expenses
    $923,851
    Contributions
    $980,796
    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
    $693,728
    Expenses
    $830,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,265

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $721,602
    Expenses
    $720,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $408,668

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $718,852
    Expenses
    $480,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $337,909

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $463,991
    Expenses
    $417,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,623

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $318,006
    Expenses
    $320,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,746

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,148
    Expenses
    $199,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,791

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $159,307
    Expenses
    $145,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,884

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,105
    Expenses
    $168,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,699

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $154,950
    Expenses
    $150,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,975

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,918
    Expenses
    $83,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,102

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.