- Revenue 2025
- $89,457
- Expenses 2025
- $67,680
Program services were 101.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A80
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 3103 SCOVILLE AVE
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 · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
Lucky Jefferson is a literary nonprofit dedicated to amplifying the voices of modern readers through publishing, education, and community programming. The organization publishes print literary works, compensates 100% of contributors at fair rates, and provides free educational workshops in poetry, media literacy, and visual storytelling. Lucky Jefferson prioritizes writers and artists historically excluded from mainstream publishing including BIPOC, incarcerated, disabled, and multilingual creators.
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Publishing Lucky Jefferson published 4 literary works in 2025 including Cataclysma, Fissure, Estallido, and Making the World Soft. 69 contributors were published and compensated, including 18 incarcerated writers and artists across 3 carceral institutions.
Expenses $38,482 · Grants $600
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Hosted 13 free workshops including 6 virtual poetry workshops reaching 20+ states and 15+ countries, 3 media literacy workshops, and 4 in-person zine workshops serving 77 total participants.
Expenses $8,266
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Photography Fellowship and Exhibition Description: Awarded first Photography Fellowship to Englewood photographer Brittany Norment in partnership with Buddy. Fellowship included mentorship, editorial support, and equipment access. Culminated in the Everyday Monuments exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Expenses $15,475
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Launched 15 West a resident and volunteer-powered neurodiverse-first community newsroom covering Chicagos West Side and neighboring suburbs. Fiscally sponsored program of Lucky Jefferson supported by Cook County Digital Equity Impact Grant and The Field Foundation.
Expenses $6,664
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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NaBeela Washington
President, Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $14,500
- Compensation
- $14,500
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Dashone Jackson
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tiffiny Washington
Secretary
- 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $89,457
- Expenses
- $67,680
- Contributions
- $89,771
- Grants paid
- $600
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024
- Tax period
- 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
- Principal officer
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Not named on the postcard
- Mailing address
- 3103 Scoville AveBerwyn IL 60402
- Website
- https://luckyjefferson.com/
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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$50,000
2025 Costs for acquiring equipment and/or facilites rehab costs as part of the grant
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$10,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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$7,500
2025 Cook County Digital Equity
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2023 GENERAL OPERATING GRANT
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.