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SURGE INSTITUTE

EIN 47-1995566 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$5,977,419
Expenses 2024
$8,222,735

Program services were 65.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2000
Street
2045 W GRAND AVE STE B PMB 63441

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.

  • DARRYL COBB

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAULA SNEED

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEAN CLAUDE BRIZARD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARGARITA FLOREZ VASCONCELOS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARIA HEREDIA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANA MARTINEZ SHROPSHIRE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAX POLANER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERESA WARD-MAUPIN THRU 824

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARMITA SEMAAN

    FOUNDER AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $387,413
    From this org
    $373,137
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,276
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $300,187
    Bonus
    $72,950
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,009
    Nontaxable benefits
    $267
    Filer's total
    $387,413

  • WILLIAM COLLINS

    CHIEF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $260,866
    From this org
    $244,535
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,331
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $237,543
    Bonus
    $6,992
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,179
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,152
    Filer's total
    $260,866

  • JANAIA NASH

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $204,879
    From this org
    $189,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,279
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,000
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $1,600
    Deferred
    $7,846
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,433
    Filer's total
    $204,879

  • ALEX CANTU

    COO (AS OF 01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANDREA EVANS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACADEMY

    Total calculated
    $139,837
    From this org
    $129,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,442
    Hours/week
    40

  • TIARA WHEATLEY

    VP ALUMNI IMPACT

    Total calculated
    $130,361
    From this org
    $119,809
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,552
    Hours/week
    40

  • TARASHAUN CAIN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BPN

    Total calculated
    $135,541
    From this org
    $120,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,191
    Hours/week
    40

  • ULRIC SHANNON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHICAGO

    Total calculated
    $126,301
    From this org
    $116,783
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,518
    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
    $5,977,419
    Expenses
    $8,222,735
    Contributions
    $4,346,758
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,068,241
    Expenses
    $7,024,291
    Contributions
    $6,046,810
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,927,387
    Expenses
    $7,575,402
    Contributions
    $2,236,882
    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

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.