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CENTRAL ELECTRIC RAILFANS ASSOCIATION

EIN 36-6085623 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$79,286
Expenses 2024
$98,151

Program services were 2.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
400 E RANDOLPH ST APT 3115

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).

Other organizations at this address

24 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Technical and Educational Society

  • Creation and distribution of technical publications sales to the public trips and events No book in 2024 but trip to Milwaukee and Trainfest 2024

  • Promotion and membership meetings Membership cards and brochure

    Expenses $1,567

  • Rental of Hall videographer and zoom expenses

    Expenses $530

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.

  • Andrew Sunderland

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • John Nicholson

    Vice Presidnet

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Raymond DeGroote

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Daniel Kelly

    Comptroller

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jon Asplund

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • John Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • David Zucker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $79,286
    Expenses
    $98,151
    Contributions
    $2,530
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $59,676
    Expenses
    $96,716
    Contributions
    $1,401
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $51,619
    Expenses
    $64,252
    Contributions
    $1,440
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,103
    Expenses
    $50,630
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,074

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $55,902
    Expenses
    $66,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $283,601

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $67,575
    Expenses
    $89,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $294,120

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $92,610
    Expenses
    $110,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,228

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $102,157
    Expenses
    $132,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $333,648

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,933
    Expenses
    $102,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $363,961

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,117
    Expenses
    $182,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,972

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $117,346
    Expenses
    $98,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,826

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $169,941
    Expenses
    $129,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $409,810

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,991
    Expenses
    $125,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $444,078

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.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.