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COMMUNITY DESK CHICAGO

EIN 92-3414074 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$2,462,835
Expenses 2025
$1,644,802

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S31
Classification
1000
Street
25 E WASHINGTON ST STE 1725

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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ja'Net Defell

    President and CEO

    Total calculated
    $187,463
    From this org
    $167,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,482
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,891
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $90
    Deferred
    $8,648
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,834
    Filer's total
    $187,463

  • Nneka Onwuzurike

    Executive Director of CWEB

    Total calculated
    $140,222
    From this org
    $128,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,639
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,541
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $42
    Deferred
    $1,708
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,931
    Filer's total
    $140,222

  • Kirby Burkholder

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Torrence Moore

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicole Bell

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lance Dorn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paula McCaleb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wanda Liz Diaz-Ortiz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Bennett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shermann Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,462,835
    Expenses
    $1,644,802
    Contributions
    $2,455,635
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $608,118
    Expenses
    $780,351
    Contributions
    $602,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,194,282
    Expenses
    $246,251
    Contributions
    $2,000,000
    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

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 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.