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ARTS OF LIFE

EIN 36-4284473 CHICAGO, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$2,309,351
Expenses 2024
$2,457,628

Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A250
Classification
1000
Street
2010 W CARROLL 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ARTS OF LIFE SUPPORTS OVER 60 ADULT ARTISTS WITH DISABILITIES AT TWO COLLECTIVE ART STUDIOS IN THE CHICAGOLAND AREA. STUDIO PROGRAMMING IS DICTATED BY THE SPECIFIC INTERESTS AND TALENTS OF OUR ARTISTS, WHO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF TO MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE STUDIO. WE ARE GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES THAT ALL ARTISTS, REGARDLESS OF DISABILITY, SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE MEMBERS OF AN ARTISTIC COMMUNITY THAT 1)DEVELOPS ORGANICALLY BASED ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE NEEDS; 2)IS CONSTANTLY SHAPED BY THEIR OPINIONS, CHOICES, AND INTERESTS; AND 3)CONTRIBUTES TO THE LARGER ARTS COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION ADVANCES THE CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING ARTISTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES A COLLECTIVE SPACE TO EXPAND THEIR PRACTICE AND STRENGTHEN THEIR LEADERSHIP.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES HIGH QUALITY, INNOVATIVE SERVICES THROUGH THE ARTS TO INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ADULTS IN THE CHICAGOLAND AREA.

    Expenses $1,875,177 · Revenue $1,209,611

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Julie Gustafson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Martell

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matt Michrina

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe McLlhattan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patty Klingbiel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Troxel-Czmyr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Riddell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cortney Lederer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sean Hicks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Goldberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jennifer Masi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patricia Christensen-Rees

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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
    $2,309,351
    Expenses
    $2,457,628
    Contributions
    $1,045,805
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,236,950
    Expenses
    $2,398,510
    Contributions
    $1,153,166
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,746,616
    Expenses
    $1,737,602
    Contributions
    $842,899
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,651,270
    Expenses
    $1,385,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $862,987

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,232,153
    Expenses
    $970,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $595,747

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $970,408
    Expenses
    $949,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,809

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.