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SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP

EIN 36-2662739 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$7,013,386
Expenses 2024
$7,409,539

Program services were 66.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
610 S MICHIGAN AVE

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.

  • BRUCE WERNER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • HAROLD ISRAEL

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • ODETTE OLSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • AMY TUCHLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AVRUM GRAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BARBARA BERESKIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BLAIR KLEIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BRUCE CRANE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BRUCE HECKTMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DON KLEINMUNTZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DONNA E BARROWS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DR SHARON SILVERMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • IRENA FRIEDGAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • LAUREL VAN ALLEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARK MEHLMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MICHAEL MARKMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MICHAEL SPERTUS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MONICA PERLMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PETER BENSINGER JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PHILIP SPERTUS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PHILLIP GORDON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SHELLEY STERN GRACH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • STEVEN WOLFF

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DEAN BELL

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $403,264
    From this org
    $365,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,222
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $325,042
    Bonus
    $40,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,491
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,731
    Filer's total
    $403,264
  • KEREN FRAIMAN

    CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $233,320
    From this org
    $227,775
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,545
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $207,775
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,504
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,041
    Filer's total
    $233,320

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. 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
    $7,013,386
    Expenses
    $7,409,539
    Contributions
    $3,239,539
    Grants paid
    $329,461
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,373,211
    Expenses
    $7,379,434
    Contributions
    $2,194,145
    Grants paid
    $466,169
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $38,642,887
    Expenses
    $8,533,835
    Contributions
    $35,403,078
    Grants paid
    $583,792

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

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 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.