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SPECIAL LEISURE SERVICES FOUNDATION

EIN 36-3145710 ROLLING MDWS, IL

Revenue 2025
$638,068
Expenses 2025
$561,513

Program services were 75.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
3000 CENTRAL RD STE 205

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 · 2025

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH RECREATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN COOPERATION WITH THE NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT NWSRA THROUGH FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.

  • SCHOLARSHIPS - SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO NWSRA PARTICIPANTS TO SUPPORT ACCESS TO RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS, CAMPS, AND INCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

    Expenses $91,096 · Grants $91,096

  • ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE SUPPORT - ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE SUPPORT EXPENSES RELATED TO THE PURCHASE, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION OF ADAPTIVE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES USED TO PROVIDE SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORTATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

    Expenses $90,000 · Grants $90,000

  • GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT - GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT EXPENSES THAT HELP FUND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS, INCLUSION SERVICES, SPECIAL EVENTS, AND PARTICIPANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH NWSRA PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.

    Expenses $69,091 · Grants $69,091

  • NWSRA LIGHTNING ATHLETICS - NWSRA LIGHTNING ATHLETICS EXPENSES SUPPORTING ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMS, COMPETITIONS, TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, EQUIPMENT, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR ATHLETES WITH DISABILITIES PARTICIPATING IN NWSRA LIGHTNING TEAMS AND EVENTS.

    Expenses $68,750 · Grants $68,750

  • BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS - THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO MAKE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE OFFICES OF THE ASSOCIATION.

    Expenses $66,059 · Grants $66,059

  • INCLUSION (ADA COMPLIANCE) - THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES GRANTS SO THAT AIDES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT CAN BE PROVIDED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO MAINSTREAM BACK INTO THEIR REGULAR PARK DISTRICT PROGRAM.

    Expenses $38,944 · Grants $38,944

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • ANTHONY GATTUSO

    CHAIR (START 01/21/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRI OATES

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NICK TROY

    TREASURER/SECRETARY (START 10/21/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINDA BALLANTINE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $1,949
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,949
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS CAMPONE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AL CROOK

    TRUSTEE (END 01/21/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRET FAHNSTROM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINA FERRARO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENNIS HANSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JIM HOUSER JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAY MORGAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAFAL PIONTKOWSKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN SALK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIKA STROJINC

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREA GRIFFIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $127,503
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $127,503
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $638,068
    Expenses
    $561,513
    Contributions
    $341,233
    Grants paid
    $423,940
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $625,164
    Expenses
    $541,942
    Contributions
    $240,189
    Grants paid
    $423,721
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $540,839
    Expenses
    $423,867
    Contributions
    $274,865
    Grants paid
    $347,302
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $438,022
    Expenses
    $834,219
    Contributions
    $264,854
    Grants paid
    $787,299

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
    $507,261
    Expenses
    $274,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,808,192

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $274,837
    Expenses
    $358,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,490,643

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,262
    Expenses
    $479,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,449,851

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $450,320
    Expenses
    $655,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,276,492

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,714
    Expenses
    $600,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,518,555

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $437,121
    Expenses
    $390,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,438,376

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,797
    Expenses
    $342,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,396,265

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,478
    Expenses
    $496,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,395,787

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,380
    Expenses
    $289,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,461,727

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

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $686,102

    2022 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $192,303

    2023 GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $176,785

    2025 GENERAL PROGRAM

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $154,385

    2024 GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $126,400

    2024 ACCESSIBLE VEHILCE SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $91,096

    2025 SCHOLARSHIPS

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $90,000

    2025 ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $73,720

    2024 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $69,216

    2024 SCHOLARSHIPS

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    $66,059

    2025 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2025 return

  • NORTHWEST SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

    GOVERMENT · RECREATION · IL

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.