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STAR FARM CHICAGO

EIN 82-4504342 CHICAGO, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$858,810
Expenses 2024
$735,929

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
934 W 50TH PL

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

STAR FARM CHICAGO IS AN URBAN FARM IN THE BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT SEEKS TO INCREASE ACCESSIBILITY AND OF LOCALLY GROWN ORGANIC PRODUCE THROUGH AFFORDABLE FARM STANDS, CSAS, YEAR-ROUND FARMERS MARKETS PARTICIPATION, FOOD DONATIONS, AND PROVIDING LOCAL JOBS, JOB TRAINING, AND BUSINESS INCUBATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND/OR EMPLOYMENT BARRIERS, WHILE ENGAGING LOCAL FAMILIES THROUGH OUR CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM, AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM, HOSTING COMMUNITY EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS, AND FOSTERING A SAFE, GREEN SPACE FOR ALL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT AND EDUCATE THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY THROUGH ACCESS TO FRESH HEALTHY PRODUCE AND URBAN AGRICULTURE EDUCATION.

  • ON THE FARM, WE CREATE AN INCLUSIVE SPACE BY PROVIDING LOCAL JOBS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND HORTICULTURAL THERAPY TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND EMPLOYMENT BARRIERS, AND TO EMPOWER WOMEN. THROUGH OUR WORK, WE HOPE TO INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF URBAN GROWERS AND FOOD JUSTICE ADVOCATES WHILE IMPROVING THE LONG TERM HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES OF THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $600,356 · Revenue $177,211

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Carol Sue Gamer

    PRESIDENT (FROM SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Cj Cole

    PRESIDENT (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kala Cuertington-Seller

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Natalie Connery

    TREASURER (FROM SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jocelyn Velazquez

    TREASURER (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Anthony Isherwood

    SECRETARY (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Shani Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shannon Pimmel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carly Herron

    DIRECTOR (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anna Kwak

    DIRECTOR (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margaret Dohr

    DIRECTOR (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Auxier

    DIRECTOR (THRU SEPTEMBER)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephanie Dunn

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $104,576
    From this org
    $104,576
    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, 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
    $858,810
    Expenses
    $735,929
    Contributions
    $681,592
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $880,886
    Expenses
    $506,808
    Contributions
    $621,257
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $596,752
    Expenses
    $525,927
    Contributions
    $460,079
    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
    $544,047
    Expenses
    $446,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $214,627

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $346,441
    Expenses
    $254,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,243

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $349,118
    Expenses
    $261,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,087

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
stephanie dunn
Mailing address
934 w 50th placeChicago IL 60609
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.