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CHICAGO LIGHTS

EIN 36-3786331 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2023
$2,507,544
Expenses 2023
$2,172,617

Program services were 76.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
126 E CHESTNUT 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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • STACY JACKSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $159,741
    From this org
    $143,796
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,945
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,796
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,945
    Filer's total
    $159,741
  • NICHOLAS VANDERSCHIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AMANDA FELT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CINDY HULL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARCUS MASON-VIVIT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CASSANDRA L BOOK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JUSTIN EPPS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DAVID KIMBELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NARESH KOKA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ANDREW MCGAAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BETH TRUETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • GRETCHEN VAN NATTA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NALINI I DURGANA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ASHLEY GOGGINS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • THERESA E MINTLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • HALLE MIROGLOTTA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARK H NELSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JUSTIN PREVOST-SCHULTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CARYN BORG-BREEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ROOSEVELT HAYWOOD III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JERRY LATHEROW

    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 — 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,507,544
    Expenses
    $2,172,617
    Contributions
    $2,594,398
    Grants paid
    $179,205
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,389,720
    Expenses
    $2,470,546
    Contributions
    $2,490,485
    Grants paid
    $210,320

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

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 2023 return

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.