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FREE STREET PROGRAMS INC

EIN 36-2772922 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$514,933
Expenses 2024
$438,072

Program services were 71.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
1419 W BLACKHAWK 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 · 2024

Mission

Free Street Theater creates afforable, inclusive and innovative theater in communities across Chicago Seeking new and effective ways to challenge racial and economic segregation through the arts.

  • Theater: The Organization works with people across Chicago to create an original ensemble performance that tells the complicated stories of the City. The Organization creates 6-8 shows per year that are performed in Pulaski Park, Back Of The Yards, public parks And community centers. These shows are made by resident ensembles or artists-in-residence through the in-house program.

    Expenses $127,028 · Revenue $6,065

  • Community Engagement: The Organization offers a wide range of workshops, classes and training for people of all ages to develop their skills as artists and change-makers. The Organization offers these workshops for free at community centers or in homes in Pulaski Park and Back Of The Yards. Located at 43rd and Ashland in Chicago, the Organization offers its Storyfront as a hub for performance, cultural events and community storytelling. The Organization also specializes in bringing people together to discuss difficult issues in fun, complicated and deeply human ways through Free Street Talk.

    Expenses $97,275 · Revenue $5,300

  • Arts Education: The Organization trains youth ages 5-24 in writing, acting, ensemble and critical thinking skills. The Organization has two resident youth ensembles and operates a park program for kids ages 5-12 at Pulaski Park.

    Expenses $89,911

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Katrina Dion

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $67,853
    From this org
    $67,853
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Caroline OBoyle

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lillian Gorman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tricia Hersey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Aptaker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacob Coz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Devin Childs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nina DAngier

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taria Abram

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $514,933
    Expenses
    $438,072
    Contributions
    $505,134
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $434,319
    Expenses
    $444,227
    Contributions
    $420,711
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $350,638
    Expenses
    $347,125
    Contributions
    $321,547
    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
    $483,236
    Expenses
    $474,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,748

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,011
    Expenses
    $334,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $398,700

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $304,162
    Expenses
    $322,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,947

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,793
    Expenses
    $353,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $341,556

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $285,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,506

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.

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

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.