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SOCIALWORKS

EIN 81-3662609 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$338,436
Expenses 2024
$370,318

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
12100 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 1210

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

SOCIALWORKS AIMS TO EMPOWER YOUTH THROUGH THE ARTS, EDUCATION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.

  • WARMEST WINTER IS AN INITIATIVE INSPIRING OTHERS THROUGH SERVICE.LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 2015, THIS INITIATIVE BEGAN BECAUSE CHANCE WANTEDTO GIVE CHICAGO'S HIGHLY MOBILE COMMUNITY A PRACTICAL COAT THAT, AT THEVERY LEAST, WAS PRACTICAL AND ABLE TO WITHSTAND CHICAGO'S HARSHWINTERS. SINCE THEN THE INITIATIVE HAS EVOLVED TO A WAY TO DIRECTLYPROVIDE DIRECT SERVICES TO THE TRANSIENT AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY INA WAY THAT PUTS COMPANIONSHIP, COMMUNTY, AN DIGNITY BEFORE ALL ELSE.

    Expenses $25,681 · Grants $25,681

  • MY STATE OF MIND IS A MENTAL HEALTH TOOL TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO WELLNESS.WITH OUR TEAM OF WELLNESS PROFESSIONALS, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF MENTALHEALTH RESOURCES WITH THE GOAL OF HELPING IN A TIME OF NEED.

    Expenses $10,247 · Grants $10,247

  • A SPACE FOR YOUNG CREATIVES TO SHARE, EXPRESS, AND NETWORK WITH LIKE-MINDED PEERS. HELD AT VARIOUS COMMUNITY-FOCUSED BUSINESSES, THIS EVENT FEATURES RANDOMLY SELECTED STUDENTS PRESENTING A 3-MINUTE PIECE OF THEIR CHOICE. OVER 90 MINUTES, STUDENTS LEARN HIP-HOP HISTORY, PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES, AND STAGE ETIQUETTE FROM RESIDENT HOSTS AND A DJ. OPENMIKE OFTEN CONCLUDES WITH PROFESSIONALS OR ART ADVOCATES DISCUSSING THEIR CREATIVE PROCESS, SHOWCASING THEIR WORK, OR SHARING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

    Expenses $2,000 · Grants $2,000

  • Expenses $332,390 · Grants $1,855

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.

  • JUSTIN CUNNINGHAM

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $125,004
    From this org
    $125,004
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ESSENSE SMITH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • CHANCELOR BENNETT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • KENNETH BENNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DARIUS WHITE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $338,436
    Expenses
    $370,318
    Contributions
    $335,153
    Grants paid
    $39,783
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $566,705
    Expenses
    $927,345
    Contributions
    $552,505
    Grants paid
    $560,096
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $525,766
    Expenses
    $1,032,710
    Contributions
    $525,641
    Grants paid
    $652,569

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
    $1,351,430
    Expenses
    $1,747,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,004,899

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,222,413
    Expenses
    $2,631,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,400,491

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,309,662
    Expenses
    $1,708,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,809,890

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

  • CHILDREN FIRST FUND

    $255,000

    2023 CONTRIBUTION TO CHILDREN FIRST FUND, CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONWHO'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH AND SUCCESS OF STUDENTS WITHINTHE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

  • EMERALD AVENUE CHURCH OF GOD - KOK CAMP

    $155,610

    2022 KIDS OF THE KINGDOM (KOK) CAMP, IS A 7 WEEK FAITH BASED SUMMER DAY CAMP PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH A SAFE, FUN AND NURTURING ENVIRONMENT THAT FOCUSES ON CREATIVE, PERFORMING, AND LITERARY ARTS. CAMPERS BUILD OWNERSHIP, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING, AGENCY, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. KOK AIMS TO PROMOTE GROWTH BY ENHANCING STUDENTS ACADEMICALLY, BEHAVIORALLY, AND SOCIALLY.

  • EMERALD AVENUE CHURCH OF GOD - KOK CAMP

    $86,376

    2023 KIDS OF THE KINGDOM (KOK) CAMP, IS A 7 WEEK FAITH BASED SUMMER DAY CAMPPROVIDING STUDENTS WITH A SAFE, FUN AND NURTURING ENVIRONMENT THATFOCUSES ON CREATIVE, PERFORMING, AND LITERARY ARTS. CAMPERS BUILDOWNERSHIP, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING, AGENCY, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.KOK AIMS TO PROMOTE GROWTH BY ENHANCING STUDENTS ACADEMICALLY,BEHAVIORALLY, AND SOCIALLY.

Where these grants went next →

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