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ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC

EIN 36-3966573 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$8,016,576
Expenses 2025
$8,741,317

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S43Z
Classification
1000
Street
135 N KEDZIE AVE

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.

  • BRAD MCCONNELL

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $211,658
    From this org
    $205,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,220
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,438
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,220
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $211,658

  • DARLENE HIGHTOWER

    CHAIR, OUTREACH

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • HORACIO MENDEZ

    TREASURER, FINANCE AND AUD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • S MICHAEL MCCRACKEN

    CHAIR, PORTFOLIO AND CREDI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • BEN BOCHNOWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • CLEMENTE NICADO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • JUAN ORTIZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • LATONYA CALDWELL EFFECTIVE 111425

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • MARIAH VAN ERMEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • NICOLE MCCARTHY EFFECTIVE 111425

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • SHANDRA RICHARDSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • TAZ GEORGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • ADRIANNE SPIVEY RESIGNED 111425

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • ANTHONY WALLER RESIGNED 111425

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • OSCAR JOHNSON RESIGNED 111425

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25

  • ROWAN RICHARDS

    DIRECTOR OF COACHING AND C

    Total calculated
    $175,678
    From this org
    $170,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,148
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,530
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,148
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $175,678

  • MARY TRITSIS

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY BUSI

    Total calculated
    $185,959
    From this org
    $168,420
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,539
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,420
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,148
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,391
    Filer's total
    $185,959

  • JILL KOZELUH

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $150,272
    From this org
    $128,322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,950
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,322
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,235
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,715
    Filer's total
    $150,272

  • JENNIE MOTTO MESTERHARM

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $156,520
    From this org
    $134,321
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,199
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,321
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,423
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,776
    Filer's total
    $156,520

  • MARY RILEY

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY RELA

    Total calculated
    $143,505
    From this org
    $133,133
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,372
    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. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $8,016,576
    Expenses
    $8,741,317
    Contributions
    $5,517,716
    Grants paid
    $1,062,666
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,940,987
    Expenses
    $9,802,100
    Contributions
    $7,662,733
    Grants paid
    $901,683
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,139,197
    Expenses
    $8,848,618
    Contributions
    $7,140,700
    Grants paid
    $952,540
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,974,469
    Expenses
    $7,836,906
    Contributions
    $7,235,138
    Grants paid
    $60,103

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $1,496,541

    2022 support for activities on the South Side of Chicago, General Operating Support, support for NEL program run by Rowan Richards, support for Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab (Second-year Renewal Grant), support for Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab, Support for NEL, A4CB will offer revenue-based financing to a diverse set of Cook County entrepreneurs with high growth potential. A4CB will leverage a $1M loan loss reserve grant from the Trust in order to deploy $5M of loan capital. The loan loss reserve grant is crucial to offer this type of financing in an economically prudent manner. Funding from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust., Support of the Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab (NEL) and their ongoing grant program enabling small business owners of color to build individual and community wealth.

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $1,199,133

    2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

  • ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE

    $790,000

    2023 COOK COUNTY ARTS INITIATIVE

  • OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK

    $500,000

    2022 OFN CDFI TECH GRANT PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY GOOGLE.ORG

  • THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

    $471,500

    2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

  • WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER

    $332,917

    2022 BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO ENTREPRENUERS.

  • WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER

    $309,667

    2023 BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO ENTREPRENEURS.

  • WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER

    $303,771

    2024 BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO ENTREPRENEURS.

  • WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO

    $261,800

    2022 ECONOMIC RECOVERY PROGRAMMING

  • SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL

    $250,000

    2025 PROMOTE/SUPORT SMALL BUS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT

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 as related by

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.