Art Institute Of Chicago: $359.5M Revenue, $340.0M Expenses

The composite efficiency score of 52/100 puts Art Institute Of Chicago at C — neither standout nor failing. Some factors run above the median (often reserves) while others run below (often revenue stability or officer-comp ratio).

Annual revenue at Art Institute Of Chicago runs $359.5M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the financial-health factor, Art Institute Of Chicago runs thin — assets relative to annual spending fall below the cushion nonprofit-finance experts typically recommend.

Revenue has been roughly stable over the five-year filing window. The pattern is normal for established organizations operating in a mature program area. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Art Institute Of Chicago reports $5.9M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $359.5M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Art Institute Of Chicago sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.