- Revenue 2024
- $505,591
- Expenses 2024
- $585,987
Program services were 77.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P99
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 78 E WASHINGTON 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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future of design through a public program of exhibitions and events.
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In the fall of 2024, the Chicago Architecture Biennial opened CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, a city-wide exhibition and series of public programs led by the artistic team Floating Museum, co-directed by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Faheem Majeed,Andrew Schachman, and avery r. young. The project explored how contemporary environmental, political, and economic issues are shared across national boundaries but are addressed differently around the world through art, architecture, infrastructure, and civic participation. The fifth edition of the Biennial featured the work of over 80 architects, artists and designers from around the world and engaged over 200,000 visitors.
Expenses $453,438
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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DAVE COCAGNE
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KIMBERLY DOWDELL
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JOHN CULLERTON
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARK P SEXTON
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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YUMI ROSS
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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HELYN D GOLDENBERG
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MICHELLE T BOONE
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SARAH HERDA
Co-Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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JACK GUTHMAN
Past Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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LYNN LOCKWOOD MURPHY
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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NORA DALEY
Co-Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $505,591
- Expenses
- $585,987
- Contributions
- $499,930
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,108,916
- Expenses
- $2,164,676
- Contributions
- $2,059,271
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $680,527
- Expenses
- $476,830
- Contributions
- $679,089
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,309,292
- Expenses
- $1,285,419
- Assets (EOY)
- $319,903
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $683,339
- Expenses
- $626,805
- Assets (EOY)
- $314,343
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,809,826
- Expenses
- $4,543,292
- Assets (EOY)
- $303,430
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,590,015
- Expenses
- $1,341,983
- Assets (EOY)
- $705,320
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,016,794
- Expenses
- $5,547,029
- Assets (EOY)
- $614,744
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,875,104
- Expenses
- $681,284
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,984,224
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,551,483
- Expenses
- $5,471,030
- Assets (EOY)
- $253,304
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
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$50,000
2022 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
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$25,000
2023 2023 CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
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$16,000
2022 In support of Chicago Architecture Biennial
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2023 Sponsorship of Making a Garden of Strange Fruit by Samuel Levi Jones
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$10,000
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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$10,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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$10,000
2022 FOR 2022 CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING: PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, YOUTH ENGAGEMENT, AND THE CHICAGO DESIGN SUMMIT.
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.