Columbia College Chicago: $239.2M Revenue, $267.2M Expenses

Columbia College Chicago earns a C on the efficiency rubric — the median bucket on the NonprofitTruth scale, indicating performance close to the national midpoint across financial reserves, officer compensation, and revenue consistency. Composite score: 61/100.

Annual revenue at Columbia College Chicago runs $239.2M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. Operating reserves at Columbia College Chicago are adequate: the balance sheet covers a reasonable share of annual expenses, though not a deep multi-year cushion.

Five-year revenue has grown modestly. Columbia College Chicago is not expanding rapidly but is not shrinking either; the trajectory is consistent with stable donor and grant relationships. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Columbia College Chicago reports $3.8M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $239.2M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Columbia College 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.