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CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION

EIN 27-1183079 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$1,216,752
Expenses 2024
$1,364,050

Program services were 66.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
2000
Street
67 E MADISON ST STE 1616

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 · 2024

Mission

CHICAGO DEBATES' MISSION IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS, AND LIFE SUCCESS OF CHICAGO'S YOUTH THROUGH THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ACADEMIC DEBATE. CHICAGO DEBATES ENVISIONS A WORLD IN WHICH CHICAGO'S YOUTH ARE EMPOWERED TO FIND THEIR VOICES, SUCCEED IN COLLEGE, AND BECOME COMMUNITY LEADERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION ("CHICAGO DEBATES") IS BRIDGING THE OPPORTUNITY GAP FOR CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS THEIR ACADEMIC, CAREER, AND LEADERSHIP SUCCESS THROUGH COMPETITIVE POLICY DEBATE.

  • CHICAGO DEBATES MANAGES AND PROVIDES DEBATE PROGRAMMING IN CHICAGO PUBLIC MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS, TRAINS AND SUPPORTS TEACHERS AND COACHES, AND COORDINATES AND CONDUCTS TOURNAMENTS.

    Expenses $904,448 · Revenue $69,594

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Eli Kay-Oliphant

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Amit Bindra

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kate Bjorklund

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zachary Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Josette Bush

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sadiya Bushner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elisa Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Samuel Finkelstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nick Greiner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Annie Kastanek

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sharone Mitchell Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stanley Pierson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matt Reedy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nina Ruvinsky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cindy Stuyvesant

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tania White

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erika Whitehead

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Yeats

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anthony Bolden

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $180,697
    From this org
    $180,697
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,697
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $180,697

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,216,752
    Expenses
    $1,364,050
    Contributions
    $1,261,095
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,077,879
    Expenses
    $1,284,147
    Contributions
    $1,036,065
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,035,785
    Expenses
    $1,340,398
    Contributions
    $1,155,803
    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
    $1,043,831
    Expenses
    $1,000,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $982,364

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,094,886
    Expenses
    $869,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $968,592

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,152,645
    Expenses
    $1,048,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $757,557

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $855,367
    Expenses
    $1,035,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $712,575

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,087,340
    Expenses
    $1,057,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $979,307

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $926,562
    Expenses
    $828,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $884,380

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

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.