Chicago Public Media Inc: $33.8M Revenue, $30.1M Expenses

Chicago Public Media Inc pulls a D on the efficiency rubric. The composite of 48/100 reflects below-median performance on the bundle of factors — typically driven by thin operating reserves, volatile revenue, or outsized officer compensation relative to organizational size.

Chicago Public Media Inc reported $33.8M in 2024 revenue — a mid-sized nonprofit by U.S. standards. Organizations in this bracket typically operate with a small permanent staff, project-based program structures, and modest reserves. On the financial-health factor, Chicago Public Media Inc runs thin — assets relative to annual spending fall below the cushion nonprofit-finance experts typically recommend.

Revenue trend is mildly positive across the five-year filing window — modest growth, consistent with stable funding sources keeping pace with organizational costs. Officer compensation is on the higher side of the band typical for nonprofits this size: $1.8M in total current-officer compensation against $33.8M in revenue. Not necessarily inappropriate — large healthcare systems and university systems often pay competitively with for-profit equivalents — but worth reading in context. Chicago Public Media Inc sits in the cultural-nonprofit sector (Arts, Culture & Humanities). Museum, performing-arts, and cultural organizations carry distinctive financial patterns — earned revenue from ticket sales and admissions, plus a heavy reliance on endowment income and major donor cycles.