Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS

EIN 36-3639885 CHICAGO, IL

Browse the largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$2,526,589
Expenses 2024
$1,209,795

Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
2651 W LAKE 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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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

FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ART'S MISSION IS TO EMPOWER AND CONNECT PEOPLE THROUGH THE HEALING PRACTICE OF GLASSBLOWING AND CERAMICS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EMPOWER AND CONNECT PEOPLE THROUGH THE HEALING PRACTICE OF GLASSBLOWING AND CERAMICS.

  • PROJECT FIRE: PROJECT FIRE CONTINUED TO PROVIDE YOUTH WHO HAVE BEEN INJURED BY GUN VIOLENCE WITH THERAPEUTIC GLASSBLOWING, EMPLOYMENT, MENTORING, AND TRAUMA-SUPPORT GROUPS.

    Expenses $584,576 · Revenue $153,145

  • FIREWORK: FIREWORK CONTINUED TO PROVIDE CPS HIGH-SCHOOLERS WITH GLASSBLOWING AND CERAMICS EDUCATION AS WELL AS ACCESS TO SOCIAL WORK SUPPORT AND EMPLOYMENT.

    Expenses $167,022

  • FIREBRAND: IN FIREBRAND, ALUMNI OF PROJECT FIRE RECEIVED STEADY EMPLOYMENT FULFILLING GLASS WHOLESALE ORDERS AND COMMISSIONS.

    Expenses $83,511

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.

  • Christina Kotrych

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Carmen Vergara

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • William Ovca

    ACTING TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Ranald Stearns

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Franklin Cosey Gay

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeri Webb

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • N'Kosi Barber

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Asif Wilson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Monique Hanson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Barbara Wallace

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Laura Samson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Edna Togba

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Corey Pina

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karen Reyes

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $79,550
    From this org
    $79,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Pearl Dick

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $102,005
    From this org
    $102,005
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,526,589
    Expenses
    $1,209,795
    Contributions
    $2,342,739
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,187,542
    Expenses
    $1,207,092
    Contributions
    $2,028,198
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $921,767
    Expenses
    $1,040,660
    Contributions
    $718,886
    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
    $982,488
    Expenses
    $742,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $984,325
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $920,934
    Expenses
    $562,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $743,544
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,775
    Expenses
    $526,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,762
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $679,821
    Expenses
    $501,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,074
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $450,062
    Expenses
    $392,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $187,464
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $179,451
    Expenses
    $131,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,987
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $132,755
    Expenses
    $132,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,106
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $139,208
    Expenses
    $120,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,169
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $127,652
    Expenses
    $105,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,978
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $119,538
    Expenses
    $108,300
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,599

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized 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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.