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AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER INC

EIN 36-2382840 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2023
$823,678
Expenses 2023
$734,425

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1200
Street
3401 W AINSLIE 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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO PROMOTE FELLOWSHIP AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES LIVING IN METROPOLITAN CHICAGO AND TO CREATE BONDS OF UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AMERICAN INDIANS AND NON AMERICAN INDIANS. THE ORGANIZATION STRIVES TO ADVANCE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF AMERICAN INDIANS.

  • EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S MISSION IS TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT SAFE,POSITIVE AND EMPOWERING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THAT PREPARE NATIVE AND NON-NATIVEYOUTH, ADULTS, ELDERS, AND PROFESSIONALS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELL-BEING OFINDIGENOUS PEOPLES. COMPONENTS OF THE EDUCATION PROGRAM INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITEDTO LANGUAGE LEARNING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS POSITIVE PATHS ANDOTHER SIMILAR PROGRAMS.

  • ARTS - THE ARTS AREA FOCUSES ON PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR FIRST VOICE AMERICANINDIAN REPRESENTATION. AMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS SELDOM HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEINVOLVED WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH THEIR ART IS REPRESENTED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THEORGANIZATION OFFERS A FIRST VOICE ART GALLERY THAT DISPLAYS NATIVE AMERICAN ART ANDHIGHLIGHTS NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS.

  • WELLNESS - THE WELLNESS AREA FOCUSES ON THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUALWELLBEING OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH MEANS CONSIDERING THEENVIRONMENT AS WELL AND THE PROGRAMS INCLUDE: MEDICINAL GARDEN, SENIOR PROGRAM ANDSPECIAL EVENTS/PROGRAMMING. THE ORGANIZATION BELIEVES THAT EVERYONE DESERVES TO LIVEIN HARMONY AND THE WELLNESS PROGRAMMING MAY HELP COMMUNITY MEMBERS DEVELOP THOSESKILLS. CURRENT WELLNESS PROGRAMMING CONSISTS OF A REFERRAL PROGRAM THAT HELPSVICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING GET OUT OF THAT LIFESTYLE.

  • Expenses $643,717

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Morales

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Samantha Selby

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Aaron Golding

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Les Begay

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dave Spencer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $823,678
    Expenses
    $734,425
    Contributions
    $823,678
    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

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $692,604
    Expenses
    $673,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,745,254

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $511,244
    Expenses
    $506,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,703,264

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,060,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,534

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $910,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,350

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

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2023, reinstated 15 November 2023.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.