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AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE

EIN 36-6008710 PARK RIDGE, IL

Revenue 2023
$8,770,644
Expenses 2023
$7,856,682

Program services were 82.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
J33Z
Classification
2000
Street
515 BUSSE HWY

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.

  • ERIC JOHNSON

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIRK AHLBECK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACKI KIMEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLAN BARTEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLLIN SASSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRED SASSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES MEYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEANNE DOHENY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA KROHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA BUGGY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW COYNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MOLLY DIETLIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICIA GRIMES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PEG O'HERRON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARA MCKITRICK

    DIRECTOR (TERM JULY, 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE WILSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN FELDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM GARCEA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM STONEBRIDGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN KRAY

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $98,746
    From this org
    $91,559
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,187
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOAN KRAFT

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $135,492
    From this org
    $133,031
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,461
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,770,644
    Expenses
    $7,856,682
    Contributions
    $6,692,168
    Grants paid
    $272,945
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,407,024
    Expenses
    $6,869,319
    Contributions
    $5,892,039
    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

Where these grants went next →

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 on its 2023 return

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.