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TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM

EIN 27-0717860 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$80,006,956
Expenses 2024
$76,985,670

Program services were 17.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B198
Classification
1200
Street
203 N LA SALLE ST STE 1900

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

TCS Education System prepares innovative, engaged, purposeful agents of change who serve our global community.

  • TCS Education System d/b/a The Community Solution is a private, nonprofit system of colleges advancing student success and community impact. The System serves primarily as a supporting organization and central provider of services to several related institutions of higher learning. Supporting functions include human resources, finance, accounting, information technology, administration, marketing, student services, facilities, and student accounts.

    Expenses $13,093,862 · Revenue $78,808,989

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael Horowitz

    Corporate President/Trustee

    Total calculated
    $1,747,997
    From this org
    $1,566,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $181,097
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $936,900
    Bonus
    $630,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $162,292
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,805
    Filer's total
    $1,747,997

  • Edward Bergmark

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 6 related

  • Patricia Potter

    Trustee/Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Douglas Patinkin

    Trustee/2nd Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Alyssa Bryant

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Valerie Coachman Moore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victoria Dolan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 6 related

  • Dorothy Farris

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Jennifer Forbes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Jana Johnston

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Kevin Kotecki

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Terence Layng

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 8 related

  • Renee Levi

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dan McCarty

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Marlene Moore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Teresa Nuno

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dipak Panigrahy

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Sanchez

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rodd Satterwhite

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Diane Watson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jennifer Gantz

    Corporate Treasurer/CFO

    Total calculated
    $400,478
    From this org
    $375,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,740
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $304,863
    Bonus
    $70,875
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $24,150
    Nontaxable benefits
    $590
    Filer's total
    $400,478

  • Shari Mikos

    Corporate Secretary

    Total calculated
    $368,593
    From this org
    $339,858
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,735
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $277,358
    Bonus
    $62,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $24,002
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,733
    Filer's total
    $368,593

  • Gregory Beno

    Asst. Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $276,060
    From this org
    $257,592
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,468
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,050
    Bonus
    $32,542
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,001
    Nontaxable benefits
    $467
    Filer's total
    $276,060

  • Elisa Davis

    Assistant Secretary

    Total calculated
    $53,079
    From this org
    $49,184
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,895
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

  • Sara Sotelo

    Asst. Corporate Secretary

    Total calculated
    $113,178
    From this org
    $93,494
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,684
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

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
    $80,006,956
    Expenses
    $76,985,670
    Contributions
    $140,323
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $78,855,375
    Expenses
    $74,773,525
    Contributions
    $1,087,115
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $70,877,819
    Expenses
    $66,763,641
    Contributions
    $112,137
    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
    $63,686,418
    Expenses
    $59,174,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,844,634

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $55,086,916
    Expenses
    $53,507,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,664,747

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $49,293,156
    Expenses
    $46,803,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,377,952

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,340,933
    Expenses
    $44,353,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,021,009

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $42,151,472
    Expenses
    $46,955,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,546,475

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $39,516,560
    Expenses
    $37,860,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,629,485

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,890,863
    Expenses
    $32,787,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,781,892

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,080,372
    Expenses
    $31,319,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,194,474

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,154,519
    Expenses
    $30,406,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,152,656

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $28,256,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,297,319

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts 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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.