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EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE

EIN 26-0798861 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,245,409
Expenses 2024
$1,075,507

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1313

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).

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.

  • KELLY EMERY

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related
  • CHANNYN LYNNE PARKER

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • HEATHER A STEANS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • BRIAN JOHNSON

    CEO/SECRETARY (CEO THRU 6/30)

    Total calculated
    $157,636
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $157,636
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $157,636 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $157,636 related
  • ANEESHA GANDHI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • CAROLINE KATZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • DEE MURAN-DE ASSERETO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • ED DIFFIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • GREG HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • KAREN SHELEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ME ECCLES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MICHAEL MEADOWS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MONA NORIEGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PAUL DESOUSA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • REYNA ORTIZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • TOI HUTCHINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • ZAHARA BASSETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • BETTY ALZAMORA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • JUSTIN DEJONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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 — 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
    $1,245,409
    Expenses
    $1,075,507
    Contributions
    $1,385,180
    Grants paid
    $12,155
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,171,397
    Expenses
    $1,276,699
    Contributions
    $1,354,259
    Grants paid
    $92,167
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,221,651
    Expenses
    $1,111,402
    Contributions
    $1,409,080
    Grants paid
    $68,504

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.

Grants made

  • 2022 TO SECURE, PROTECT AND DEFEND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE.

  • 2023 SUPPORT ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES

  • 2023 TO SECURE, PROTECT AND DEFEND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.