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CHICAGO BULLS CHARITIES

EIN 36-3544506 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$1,232,769
Expenses 2024
$1,365,881

Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70Z
Classification
1000
Street
1901 W MADISON ST

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

2 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

Mission

Chicago Bulls charities is committed to community violence prevention through four focus areas; education, investment, health & wellness, and access to opportunities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To make a positive impact on the lives of Chicagoans in need.

  • Provide financial assistance to support education, community investment, health & wellness, and access to opportunities that benefit underserved Chicagoans.

    Expenses $1,288,941 · Grants $1,288,941

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.

  • John Paxson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Michael Reinsdorf

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Ram Padmanabhan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Adrienne Scherenzel

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Andrew Herrington-Gilmore

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Kieran Kelliher

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Nancy Reinsdorf

    President

    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
    $1,232,769
    Expenses
    $1,365,881
    Contributions
    $597,332
    Grants paid
    $1,288,941
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,512,644
    Expenses
    $918,690
    Contributions
    $873,942
    Grants paid
    $816,667
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,061,078
    Expenses
    $14,773,155
    Contributions
    $1,497,152
    Grants paid
    $14,534,334

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,784,035
    Expenses
    $1,968,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,418,527

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,680
    Expenses
    $1,299,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,919,718

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,006,332
    Expenses
    $1,121,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,974,111

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,079,962
    Expenses
    $885,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,562,891

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,482,595
    Expenses
    $699,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,452,454

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 partnerships on its 2024 return

  • Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership

    Professional Sports · IL

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.