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CARA PROGRAM

EIN 36-4268095 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$20,870,682
Expenses 2024
$16,565,889

Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
J200
Classification
2000
Street
237 S DESPLAINES 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 · 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.

  • Andrea O'Leary

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Andrew Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brenda Battle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Rafferty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Doyoung Yong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • J Todd Philips

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Jaclyn Trovato

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Owens Burns

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keisha Mullings-Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kelvin Buncum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marta Delgado

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Regina Cross

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rufus Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Scott Gidwitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Sheldon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Quirk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Terrill North

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Owens Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Raymer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Willette Benford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William Eveland

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathleen Caliento

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $299,990
    From this org
    $270,826
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,164
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $270,826
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,243
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,921
    Filer's total
    $299,990
  • Tara Harper

    Chief External Affairs Officer

    Total calculated
    $213,536
    From this org
    $196,049
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,487
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $196,049
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,445
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,042
    Filer's total
    $213,536
  • Matt Michalak

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5
  • Lauren Feldman

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $180,437
    From this org
    $178,501
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,936
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,501
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,454
    Nontaxable benefits
    $482
    Filer's total
    $180,437

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $20,870,682
    Expenses
    $16,565,889
    Contributions
    $16,034,825
    Grants paid
    $500,820
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,768,907
    Expenses
    $15,419,503
    Contributions
    $17,760,243
    Grants paid
    $540,582
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,735,070
    Expenses
    $12,734,641
    Contributions
    $7,978,184
    Grants paid
    $223,210

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.