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FRESHAIR COLLECTIVE

EIN 93-3024294 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2025
$249,210
Expenses 2025
$95,656

Program services were 24.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C99
Classification
2800
Street
3159 N HUMBOLDT BLVD

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 · 2025

Mission

To collect accurate data, foster meaningful community engagement, and drive action to improve indoor and outdoor air quality in Milwaukee.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To collect accurate data, foster meaningful community engagement, and drive action to improve indoor and outdoor air quality in Milwaukee

  • DHS Minority Health Program Grant: the project addressed critical environmental justice issues exacerbated by poor air quality. It deployed an additional neighborhood-level air quality monitoring systems in targeted areas identified through comprehensive data analysis of the existing network. The expansion of this network equipped residents with real-time data on air pollutants, enabling them to make informed decisions to protect their health. Concurrently, the project developed and disseminated an evidence-based educational curriculum tailored to all age groups in the community. This curriculum covered the sources, impacts, and mitigation strategies of air pollution and was made accessible through both direct community engagement and on-demand online platforms. Additionally, the project introduced the Bad Air Badger, an innovative animatronic educational robot designed to raise awareness and engage community members effectively at various events. This tool, along with the educational programming and the first annual report summarizing air monitoring data, helped empower residents with the knowledge and advocacy tools needed to demand better environmental conditions.

    Expenses $42,500 · Grants $42,500

  • This project expanded MKE FreshAir Collectives work across outdoor air quality, indoor air quality, and indoor air contaminants. It included gathering community input through a resident survey to better understand local concerns and shape future education, programming, and project development. The project also strengthened the organizations air monitoring capacity by adding a near-reference sensor and continued the distribution of indoor air contaminant testing in prioritized Milwaukee neighborhoods with historically low testing rates. Grant runs from June 25-Jul 26 and all funds will be spent.

    Expenses $33,000 · Grants $75,000

  • This project is a community-led effort focused on documenting air quality concerns related to the proposed freeway expansion and helping residents better understand the potential health impacts. MKE FreshAir Collective works with community and partners to deploy air sensors near the corridor, share air quality information with residents, and support community education and advocacy. The project helps elevate environmental concerns, connect air pollution data to community health, and ensure residents have better access to information that could inform public discussion and policy decisions. Two year grant.

    Expenses $27,006 · Grants $50,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Langston Verdin

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $29,782
    From this org
    $29,782
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Danika Hill-Paulus

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $33,924
    From this org
    $33,924
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    22

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $249,210
    Expenses
    $95,656
    Contributions
    $213,802
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2025
    Revenue
    $249,210
    Expenses
    $154,990
    Contributions
    $213,802
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2025
    Revenue
    $249,210
    Expenses
    $154,990
    Contributions
    $216,210
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $56,425
    Expenses
    $34,890
    Contributions
    $44,283
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Not named on the postcard
Mailing address
3159 North Humboldt BoulevardMilwaukee WI 53212
Website
MKEFreshAir.com

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.