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BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION

EIN 36-3874655 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,484,979
Expenses 2024
$1,512,406

Program services were 71.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H30J
Classification
1000
Street
55 W WACKER DR STE 1100

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.

  • KATHLEEN CASEY

    PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $147,500
    From this org
    $147,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CLAIRE JOLCOVER

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOY LARISEY

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES HERBISON

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA HARTMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAULA HAMRIC

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AJANI NIMMAGADDA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA CAPUTO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIANNA ELSASS

    TREASURER (Current)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERYL GRACE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COURTNEY MOORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CRAIG SHIRLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DELNAZ VAZIFDAR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF CONRAD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON JELINEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENRA CASTELLONI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAMELA MIKULEC

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB PELLICANO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPH SORENSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN HITCH-ZINT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATE TILLOTSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $140,000
    From this org
    $140,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Michelle Hanfling

    VP of Programs & Operations

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • COURTNEY KRUPA

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,484,979
    Expenses
    $1,512,406
    Contributions
    $1,297,152
    Grants paid
    $15,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,297,950
    Expenses
    $1,459,087
    Contributions
    $1,069,180
    Grants paid
    $55,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,735,462
    Expenses
    $1,413,781
    Contributions
    $1,734,923
    Grants paid
    $35,000

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.

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.