- Revenue 2024
- $1,418,616
- Expenses 2024
- $894,198
Program services were 68.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- O99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 7300 S COTTAGE GROVE 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
TO PROVIDE YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC FATHERS AGES 17 TO 24 THE SKILLS AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO BE BETTER FATHERS FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND BETTER MEN IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
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DOVETAILS CORE PROGRAM IS LED BY PARENTING AND LIFE SKILLS INSTRUCTORS AND SUPPLEMENTED BY FREQUENT GUEST SPEAKERS. THE FATHERS LEARN ABOUT THE ROLES, RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITES OF FATHERHOOD AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN. FATHERS IN THE PROGRAM RECEIVE A STIPEND, MEALS AND BUS FARE; EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES SUCH AS GED AND OR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT, JOB READINESS SKILLS AND FELON STREET LAW EDUCATION.
Expenses $616,460 · Revenue $1,418,616
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.
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Alex duBuclet
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sheldon Smith
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $175,000
- From this org
- $175,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $175,000
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $175,000
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Maurese Nelson
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sharette Katherine-Keith
Treasurer
- 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. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,418,616
- Expenses
- $894,198
- Contributions
- $1,417,798
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $947,445
- Expenses
- $794,305
- Contributions
- $947,445
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $651,311
- Expenses
- $856,855
- Contributions
- $651,309
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $903,279
- Expenses
- $864,268
- Assets (EOY)
- $583,824
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $938,688
- Expenses
- $701,222
- Assets (EOY)
- $539,147
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $938,688
- Expenses
- $701,222
- Assets (EOY)
- $539,147
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $625,856
- Expenses
- $740,494
- Assets (EOY)
- $305,344
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $758,995
- Expenses
- $711,806
- Assets (EOY)
- $412,105
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $759,672
- Expenses
- $600,505
- Assets (EOY)
- $352,124
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $294,664
- Expenses
- $139,067
- Assets (EOY)
- $176,641
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
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Sheldon SmithSHELDON SMITH
- Mailing address
- 7300 S COTTAGE GROVECHICAGO IL 60619
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
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2024 TO SUPPORT THE THREE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF THE DOVETAIL PROJECT
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2024 IN SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS IN FURTHERANCE OF NBA FOUNDATION'S MISSION
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$120,000
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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$110,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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2023 TO PURCHASE TWO 15-PASSANGER VANS AT $53,640 EACH
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$104,000
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
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2025 CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
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$15,000
2022 support for Dovetail Project, support for The Dovetail Project
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2014, reinstated 15 May 2014.
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.