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CHICAGO INVENTORS ORGANIZATION

EIN 20-0971520 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2022
$115,449
Expenses 2022
$106,544

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2100
Street
8345 S ASHLAND AVE UNIT 20020

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 · 2022

Primary exempt purpose

Chicago Inventors Organization assists inventors from low and moderate-income communities with limited financial resources whose products will create sustainable businesses and jobs in the Chicago metropolitan area during their navigation of the invention process.

  • CIO FY 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023 2021 PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES for members and program participants. 1. Five Hundred+ Attendees at Seminars and Conference 2. Twenty+ Patents 3. Ten+ Patents Pending 4. Three Trademarks 5. TwoCopyrights 6. Twenty+ Computer Assisted Designs (CAD) 7. Thirty+ Prototypes 8. Five Business Formations 9. Nine Manufacturing Inventory Runs 10 Three Licensing Agreement Deals 11. Six Pending Licensing Agreements

    Expenses $105,835

As filed on the 2022 return.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Calvin Flowers

    President

    Total calculated
    $35,700
    Compensation
    $35,700
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    35
  • Adam Kelly

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Thomas Kuczmarski

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05
  • Millie Liggins

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Dennis Daniels

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $4,225
    Compensation
    $4,225
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jennifer Turner

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $1,500
    Compensation
    $1,500
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kenneth A Matuszewski

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Girzadas

    Board Member

    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

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $115,449
    Expenses
    $106,544
    Contributions
    $81,991
    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

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $53,646
    Expenses
    $29,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,905
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $33,421
    Expenses
    $42,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,281
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,382
    Expenses
    $43,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,150
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $57,582
    Expenses
    $52,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,481

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020
Principal officer
Calvin Flowers
Mailing address
2150 South Canalport AveChicago IL 60608
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

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 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.