OPEN BOOKS LTD

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B60

Classification

1000

Street

651 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).

Mission and programs · 2023

• DURING THE 2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR, OPEN BOOKS SERVED STUDENTS THROUGH BOOK ACCESS AND READING SUPPORT PROGRAMS. READING BUDDIES FOCUSED ON BUILDING FLUENCY, STUDENT CONFIDENCE, AND READING LEVEL GROWTH FOR EARLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS AND AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS IN NORTH LAWNDALE. OPEN BOOK'S EARLY LITERACY STORYTIME PARTNERED WITH VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS TO ENGAGE CAREGIVERS AND FAMILIES IN FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY CONCEPTS THEY CAN PRACTICE AT HOME. TO BETTER PREPARE CHILDREN FOR KINDERGARTEN SUCCESS, OPEN BOOKS EARLY CHILDHOOD RESIDENCY PROGRAM BROUGHT INSTRUCTORS INTO HOME DAYCARES. FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AGES 0-5 WERE ALSO ENROLLED IN DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY, A BOOK ACCESS INITIATIVE AIMED AT INCREASING BOOKS IN THE HOME. WE GRANTED OVER 90,000 BOOKS THROUGH CLASSROOM BOOK GRANTS, WHOLE SCHOOL BOOK GRANTS, AS WELL AS OUR FREE CHILDREN'S BOOK SECTION AT OPEN BOOKS PILSEN AND OPEN BOOKS NORTH LAWNDALE. IN ADDITION TO OPEN BOOKS'S LITERACY PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY EVENTS WERE A CORE PART OF OUR WORK WITH NORTH LAWNDALE READS. AS PART OF NORTH LAWNDALE READS, OPEN BOOKS BUILDS AND MAINTAINS LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES AND BOOK NOOKS ACROSS NORTH LAWNDALE AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDES FREE BOOKS AND LITERACY ACTIVITIES AT COMMUNITY EVENTS.

  Expenses $2,782,309 · Revenue $714,617

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.

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

  $3,924,289

  Expenses

  $3,359,617

  Contributions

  $3,185,325

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,624,935

  Expenses

  $3,128,887

  Contributions

  $3,003,954

  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

  $2,509,213

  Expenses

  $2,422,938

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,632,134

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,915,456

  Expenses

  $2,348,180

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,645,591

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,959,609

  Expenses

  $2,402,182

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,110,443

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,411,991

  Expenses

  $2,393,910

  Assets (EOY)

  $546,181

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,235,456

  Expenses

  $2,238,643

  Assets (EOY)

  $504,127

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,040,651

  Expenses

  $2,045,810

  Assets (EOY)

  $462,655

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,818,412

  Expenses

  $1,913,551

  Assets (EOY)

  $455,210

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,814,181

  Expenses

  $1,770,569

  Assets (EOY)

  $538,204

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,733,966

  Expenses

  $1,672,651

  Assets (EOY)

  $424,969

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,454,780

  Assets (EOY)

  $334,834

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $149,350

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO

  $125,850

  2022 · Grants from Donor Advised Funds - Operating Support

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO

  $101,500

  2024 · GRANTS FROM DONOR ADVISED FUNDS- OPERATING SUPPORT

• IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO

  $100,000

  2022

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $36,500

  2022 · General Operating Support

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,287

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  2025 · YOUTH/EDUCATION

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $20,250

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $19,100

  2024 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $15,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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