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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT

EIN 36-4090773 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2023
$25,831,160
Expenses 2023
$21,832,104

Program services were 97.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
2558 W 63RD 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.

  • ELIDETH HERNANDEZ

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SR MARGARET ZALOT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS RYAN

    TREASUERER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALIA BILAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICARDO CIFUENTES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAUL GARCIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FATHER BILL LEGO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADRIAN SOTO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SR IMMACULA WENDT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF BARTOW

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $224,342
    From this org
    $177,496
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $46,846
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,496
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,758
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,088
    Filer's total
    $224,342

  • CHRIS BROWN

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $157,714
    From this org
    $130,491
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,223
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,491
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,023
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,200
    Filer's total
    $157,714

  • IMELDA SALAZAR

    LD IMMIGRATION ORGANIZER

    Total calculated
    $136,812
    From this org
    $118,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,274
    Hours/week
    40

  • JESSICA BIGGS

    LD HC ORGANIZER

    Total calculated
    $132,682
    From this org
    $116,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,182
    Hours/week
    40

  • EDITH ROBLES

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $138,689
    From this org
    $105,116
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,573
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,831,160
    Expenses
    $21,832,104
    Contributions
    $2,556,416
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $16,712,558
    Expenses
    $15,359,635
    Contributions
    $1,848,420
    Grants paid
    $0

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 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.