- Revenue 2024
- $68,147,549
- Expenses 2024
- $73,382,562
Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C410
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 1000 LAKE COOK RD
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.
-
MICHAEL R ZIMMERMAN
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ALAN J ROUSE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANDREW SINCLAIR
CHAIR, FINANCE & INVESTMENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANITA M SARAFA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANITA M TYSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANN BALUSEK
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANNE LEVENTRY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANNE S LOUCKS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BARBARA MALOTT KIZZIAH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BENJAMIN F LENHARDT JR
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BOB PROBST
CHAIR, AUDIT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BRITT M MILLER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CAROL A BARNETT
CHAIR, BUILDINGS, GARDENS, AND VISITOR EXPERIENCE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CATHERINE M WADDELL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CHRISTOPHER E GIRGENTI
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CRAIG NIEMANN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DANA ANDERSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DIANA S FERGUSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DIANE VS LEVY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DORA AALBREGTSE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
EILEEN FIGEL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ERNEST C WONG
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ERNEST W TORAIN JR
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
GLENA TEMPLE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $68,147,549
- Expenses
- $73,382,562
- Contributions
- $39,376,498
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $76,930,745
- Expenses
- $69,918,513
- Contributions
- $54,322,264
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $77,057,735
- Expenses
- $60,660,427
- Contributions
- $34,829,423
- Grants paid
- $120,000
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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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
-
2022 CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORT BALLOT INITIATIVE
Grants received
-
$3,093,050
2022 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
-
$2,786,000
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
-
$2,203,050
2023 EDUCATION
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$668,027
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
-
$663,928
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
$501,618
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
$412,000
2023 VETERAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT CANTIGNY AND THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$296,238
2022 support for projects in the Lawndale Area, including the Farm in the City, General Operating Support, support for matching contribution challenge, support for science programs that inform and accelerate conservation efforts, support for Windy City Harvest, unrestricted annual support, Annual Fund, Annual Fund contribution, support for Lightscape 2023 (no tickets or tangible benefits), Windy City Harvest
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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
-
501(c)(3) · PLANT INTRODUCTION · IL
Declared as related by
-
On its 2024 return
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.