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Southwest Organizing Project

Public charityFed auditsIRS 990
Community Development · CHICAGO, IL · EIN 36-4090773

About

The southwest organizing project's (SWOP) mission is to build a broad-based organization of christian, muslim, and jewish faith institutions, local schools and other institutions in southwest chicago, which will enable families to exercise common values, determine their own future and connect with each other to improve life in their neighborhoods. To this END, leaders ofswop have dedicated themselves to building relationships across racial, ethnic, generational and faith differences and to bringing the common concerns of their institutionsinto the public life of the community as they develop the capacity to ACT collectively and "stand for the whole.

Donations are tax-deductible
Category
Community Development
Employees
69
Volunteers
300

Financial Snapshot

FY ending 2023-06-30
Revenue
$16.7M
Expenses
$15.4M
Assets
$12.4M
Liabilities
$2.3M

Financial history

$16.7M$8.4M$0
2223
RevenueExpenses
Latest FY2023: $16.7M

501(h) election

This 501(c)(3) has NOT elected 501(h) — lobbying is permitted but limited under the vaguer "no substantial part of activities" test.

Political & Grant Activity

Campaign Spending
Lobbying
$80K
Grants Given
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT
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Address

2558 W 63RD ST
Chicago, IL, 60629-164

Governance

Voting board members11
Independent members10
Conflict-of-interest policyYes
Whistleblower policyYes
Doc-retention policyYes
Audit committeeYes
990 reviewed by boardYes

Compensation practices

Severance paymentsNo
Equity-based compNo
Supplemental retirement planNo
Board approved compYes
Initial contract exceptionNo
Public records
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