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CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS

EIN 82-3034634 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$327,876
Expenses 2024
$446,230

Program services were 62.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
2000
Street
1757 N KIMBALL 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

Chicago Mobile Makers creates programming that encourages youth to become advocates and change-makers in their own communities through design-focused skill-building workshops. The organization engages and empowers youth through making and skill-building trains and supports future public interest architects designers and makers.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Chicago Mobile Makers provides design STEAM and skill-building educational programs.

  • Educational Consulting: The Aspen Art Museum engaged Chicago Mobile Makers to serve as an Education Partner for the 2024 Youth Art Expo. The organization designed educational design prompts and instructional videos. Chicago Mobile Makers also facilitated a teen program focusing on the design of youth third spaces that culminated in the transformation of a gallery at the museum.

    Expenses $17,500 · Revenue $17,500

  • Community Pop-Ups: Chicago Mobile Makers hosted over 30 pop-ups across the Chicago-land area over two years with the Mobile Makerspace a USPS delivery van that the organization converted into a mobile design studio. Hundreds of participants engaged with playful design-related activities and were encouraged to envision and reimagine their communities.

    Expenses $57,500 · Grants $57,500 · Revenue $57,500

  • Recurring Workshops: Chicago Mobile Makers partnered with Embarc Chicago on a series of field trips. Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students visited the organizations permanent location to participate in design workshops and explore educational themes related to architecture prototyping and digital fabrication.

    Expenses $9,100 · Revenue $9,100

  • Program Facilitators

    Expenses $102,186

  • Office Supplies

    Expenses $13,490

  • Rent

    Expenses $65,576

  • Insurance

    Expenses $15,005

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.

  • Maya Bird-Murphy

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $114,444
    From this org
    $57,222
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,222
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kim Lovely

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Pabellon

    Board Member

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $327,876
    Expenses
    $446,230
    Contributions
    $254,110
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $456,110
    Expenses
    $404,131
    Contributions
    $366,362
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $272,835
    Expenses
    $298,185
    Contributions
    $133,274
    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
    $216,756
    Expenses
    $208,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,469

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Maya Bird-Murphy
Mailing address
4044 N LincolnChicago IL 60618
Website
chicagomobilemakers.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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.