Program areas at 826chi
After-School Programs:Four days a week, caring and supportive volunteers offer individualized homework help to first through eighth graders. Students also sharpen their writing skills with a daily creative writing activity. Each semester, their writing is published in a chapbook and celebrated by the 826CHI community.Field Trips:On weekday mornings throughout the school year, we invite classrooms to our writing lab for creative writing experiences. Field Trips are tuition-free, offered to Chicago Public School classes in grades one through twelve, and focus on a variety of writing skills. Each of our six different Field Trip experiences is designed to be project-based, collaborative, playful, empowering, imaginative, and to encourage students to share their ideas in their own unique voices.
Who funds 826chi
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at 826chi
| Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
|---|
| Jennifer Steele | Executive Director | $0 | 2023-05-15 |
| Theodora Khun | Director | $0 | 2022-06-30 |
| Josh Gantz | Treasurer | $0 | 2022-06-30 |
| Kathleen st Louis Caliento | Vice - Chair | $0 | 2022-06-30 |
| Kevin Boehm | Director | $0 | 2022-06-30 |
| ...and 7 more key personnel |
Financials for 826chi
| Revenues | FYE 06/2022 | FYE 06/2021 | % Change |
|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $474,211 | $722,135 | -34.3% |
| Program services | $0 | $0 | - |
| Investment income and dividends | $0 | $0 | - |
| Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
| Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from sales of inventory | $-34,408 | $-24,971 | -37.8% |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $8,840 | $188 | 4602.1% |
| Total revenues | $448,643 | $697,352 | -35.7% |
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Data update history
August 19, 2023
Received grants
Identified 11 new grant, including a grant for $50,000 from Hopewell Fund August 18, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
July 21, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
Nonprofit Types
SchoolsEducational service providersCharities
Issues
Education
Characteristics
Fundraising eventsCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donations
General information
- Address
- 1276 N Milwaukee
- Chicago, IL 60622
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
- County
- Cook County, IL
- Website URL
- 826chi.org/Â
- Phone
- (773) 772-8108
IRS details
- EIN
- 30-0248920
- Fiscal year end
- June
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 2004
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- B90: Educational Services
- NAICS code, primary
- 6116: Other Schools and Instruction
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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