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THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER

EIN 36-4219965 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$3,134,312
Expenses 2025
$2,822,172

Program services were 95.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1200
Street
2711 W LAWRENCE 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.

  • Justin Block

    Excecutive Director Former

    Total calculated
    $23,704
    From this org
    $23,704
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $23,704
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $23,704

  • Steve Paska

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mark Bookman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Raquel Dafonseca

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lauren Biedron

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Vidiana Birts

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Alex Zinicola

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Chris Norberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Steph Zidek

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nadia Jimenez

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $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. 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
    $3,134,312
    Expenses
    $2,822,172
    Contributions
    $3,107,181
    Grants paid
    $2,049,929
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,090,705
    Expenses
    $3,005,359
    Contributions
    $3,069,054
    Grants paid
    $2,349,217
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,804,395
    Expenses
    $2,771,092
    Contributions
    $2,786,325
    Grants paid
    $2,211,820
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $705,049
    Expenses
    $472,755
    Contributions
    $258,854
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,621,924
    Expenses
    $2,245,987
    Contributions
    $2,619,935
    Grants paid
    $1,810,540

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.

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.