- Revenue 2024
- $5,769,192
- Expenses 2024
- $3,957,841
Program services were 78.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S310
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 4201 N 27TH ST 7TH FLOOR
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.
-
GEOFFREY COOPER
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LEE MENEFEE
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HAL KARAS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEVE HIPP
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRYAN GILL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REBECCA GRIES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ASHANTI HAMILTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BERNADETTE KARANJA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
YVONNE MCCASKILL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
VINCENT RICE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KIRSTEN THOMPSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL WARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARIA WATTS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
WENDELL WILLIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RONALD WILLIAMSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EVAN REED
DIRECTOR (THRU JAN 24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
WILLIE SMITH
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $218,536
- From this org
- $208,511
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,025
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $176,581
- Bonus
- $31,930
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $5,150
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,875
- Filer's total
- $218,536
-
NOEL SMITH
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $25,086
- From this org
- $25,086
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,769,192
- Expenses
- $3,957,841
- Contributions
- $4,704,223
- Grants paid
- $1,003,375
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,654,859
- Expenses
- $3,480,546
- Contributions
- $4,862,162
- Grants paid
- $1,155,000
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,800,252
- Expenses
- $3,905,070
- Contributions
- $4,309,101
- Grants paid
- $2,037,554
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
-
BRONZEVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS (BCA)
$1,613,179
2022 CONSTRUCTING, DEVELOPING, AND OPERATING AN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER
-
$200,000
2023 PAY-OFF CREDITOR - LITTLE CRAWLERS
-
CARE MGT PLUS HEALTH SERVICES LLC
$150,000
2024 WORKING CAPITAL
-
$140,000
2023 PAY-OFF CREDITOR - LITTLE CRAWLERS
-
$109,500
2024 FHLB FELLOWS PROGRAM AND PROFESSIONAL DEV
-
$100,000
2023 PAY-OFF CREDITOR - LITTLE CRAWLERS
-
$85,000
2023 INJECTION -PAY DOWN LOAN
-
$80,000
2023 WORKING CAPITAL
-
$65,000
2024 OPERATIONS OVERHEAD/TAX SUPPORT
-
$60,000
2024 ZILBER NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE/BUSINESS SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC
$1,613,179
2022 ADVANCING A CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR AA ARTS CENTER
-
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC
$200,000
2024 GENERAL OPERATING 2024-2026
-
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SELF-HELP
$100,000
2023 Charitable Lending
-
2024 SEE PART IV
-
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SELF-HELP
$50,000
2022 Charitable Lending
-
2024 PARTNER SUSTAINABILITY GENERAL
-
$28,848
2025 US FOREST SERVICE TREE SUBAWARD RECIPIENT
-
2022 HEALTH EQUITY GRANT
-
2024 INVEST IN FUTURE SUBGRANT
-
$10,250
2022 TRAIL DEVELOPMENT
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.