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ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED

EIN 36-2720602 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$8,672,418
Expenses 2024
$9,659,000

Program services were 70.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F200
Classification
2800
Street
241 EAST 57TH 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).

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.

  • RACHEL PATE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • KATIE ENG

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JON GORTAT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PENNY SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RANDALL DOUBET-KING

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • VERONICA CORTEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KELLY SUDNIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ERIN KILLINGSWORTH-WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NIKOLAS ARMSTRONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NICOLE MILANO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • GRACE TAYLOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MIKKI KENDALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ANANDA BADILI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • TOM ZIEGENFUSS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DHYIA THOMPSON-PHILLIPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BESSIE L ALCANTARA

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $203,677
    From this org
    $189,856
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,821
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,856
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,912
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,909
    Filer's total
    $203,677
  • SONYA COOK

    FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,708
    From this org
    $118,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,333
    Hours/week
    40
  • JESSICA NEWSOME

    OPERATIONS & STRATEGY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $117,191
    From this org
    $111,573
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,618
    Hours/week
    40
  • SHAHARAZAD JOHNSON

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $118,480
    From this org
    $102,255
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,225
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $8,672,418
    Expenses
    $9,659,000
    Contributions
    $8,288,289
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,299,907
    Expenses
    $8,839,032
    Contributions
    $11,093,190
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,380,981
    Expenses
    $8,839,030
    Contributions
    $11,175,057
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,307,572
    Expenses
    $6,685,340
    Contributions
    $6,582,396
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,932,749
    Expenses
    $6,009,589
    Contributions
    $6,378,265
    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.

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.