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EIN 36-3134577 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$5,463,926
Expenses 2025
$5,576,546

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83Z
Classification
1000
Street
100 N LA SALLE ST STE 2500

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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Geoff Cockrell

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Panza

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Colin Cordes

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Collette Allison Woghiren

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Harrison

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Hopp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brett Barnett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Thompkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Crystal Ding

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Felicia Shakespeare

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louis DiSanto

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Astle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ryan A Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shiva Kooragayala

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Swartz

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $144,641
    From this org
    $133,971
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,670
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michelle Gilbert

    Legal & Policy Director

    Total calculated
    $135,977
    From this org
    $120,481
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,496
    Hours/week
    40

  • Don Hailey

    Development & Comms Director

    Total calculated
    $114,289
    From this org
    $106,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,189
    Hours/week
    40

  • Aileen Flanagan

    Supervising Attorney

    Total calculated
    $110,878
    From this org
    $103,031
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,847
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jonathon Raffensperger

    Supervising Attorney

    Total calculated
    $109,748
    From this org
    $101,818
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,930
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,463,926
    Expenses
    $5,576,546
    Contributions
    $5,420,885
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,488,896
    Expenses
    $5,161,699
    Contributions
    $5,413,774
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,721,235
    Expenses
    $4,750,550
    Contributions
    $5,617,827
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,813,768
    Expenses
    $3,552,493
    Contributions
    $3,667,796
    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.