- Revenue 2024
- $21,521,271
- Expenses 2024
- $16,091,681
Program services were 96.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 190 SOUTH LASALLE STREET 39TH FLOO
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.
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DEREK RB DOUGLAS
DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $1,107,061
- From this org
- $155,824
- From related orgs
- $883,004
- Other
- $68,233
- Hours/week
- 6 + 34 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,000 + $878,332 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $824 + $4,672 related
- Deferred
- $2,953 + $16,734 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $7,282 + $41,264 related
- Filer's total
- $166,059 + $941,002 related
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JENNIFER SCANLON
DIRECTOR/CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 4 related
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MICHAEL O'GRADY
DIRECTOR/VICE CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 4 related
-
STEVE KOCH
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
-
SCOTT SWANSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
-
CORDELIA C MEYER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $494,024
- From this org
- $55,940
- From related orgs
- $391,580
- Other
- $46,504
- Hours/week
- 5 + 37 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $54,540 + $381,781 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $1,400 + $9,799 related
- Deferred
- $2,331 + $16,318 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $3,482 + $24,373 related
- Filer's total
- $61,753 + $432,271 related
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SARAH POWELL
ACCOUNTING MANGER
- Total calculated
- $112,519
- From this org
- $10,716
- From related orgs
- $96,445
- Other
- $5,358
- Hours/week
- 3 + 25 related
-
NIKA LEVANDO BIRMAN
CHIEF OF STAFF
- Total calculated
- $183,029
- From this org
- $8,523
- From related orgs
- $161,940
- Other
- $12,566
- Hours/week
- 2 + 38 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $8,507 + $161,635 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $16 + $305 related
- Deferred
- $37 + $700 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $591 + $11,238 related
- Filer's total
- $9,151 + $173,878 related
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SUZANNE FISHER
VP, FINANCE & ADMIN
- Total calculated
- $235,724
- From this org
- $23,764
- From related orgs
- $166,347
- Other
- $45,613
- Hours/week
- 4 + 28 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $23,541 + $164,785 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $223 + $1,562 related
- Deferred
- $1,238 + $8,664 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,464 + $31,247 related
- Filer's total
- $29,466 + $206,258 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 — 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
- $21,521,271
- Expenses
- $16,091,681
- Contributions
- $21,302,624
- Grants paid
- $15,302,123
-
2023
- Revenue
- $31,548,553
- Expenses
- $7,197,654
- Contributions
- $31,425,641
- Grants paid
- $6,757,868
-
2022
- Revenue
- $6,183,004
- Expenses
- $5,615,868
- Contributions
- $6,026,500
- Grants paid
- $5,186,665
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
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THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO
$7,433,903
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO
$4,858,869
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO
$3,021,948
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CRIME LABS
$2,535,050
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$2,000,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$1,860,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$1,597,160
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$1,468,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$1,243,109
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$300,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$500,000
2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
-
ULTA BEAUTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$350,000
2025 Represent the business, education, cultural, and philanthropic sectors.
-
$340,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
ULTA BEAUTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$250,000
2024 Represent the business, education, cultural, and philanthropic sectors.
-
$103,000
2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
$75,000
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$75,000
2022 annual support of the Civic Committee
-
$62,500
2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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 2024 return
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501(C)(4) · MEMBERSHIP · IL
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501(C)(3) · PUBLIC POLICY · IL
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501(C)(4) · PUBLIC POLICY · IL
Declared as related by
-
On its 2024 return
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On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
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.