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Filing year 2023

826CHI INC

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 30-0248920·NTEE B90 · Education·3
Total revenue
$891k
Total assets
$204k
Total expenses
$952k
Reported officers
12
Mission

SUPPORT STUDENTS AGES 6 TO 18 WITH THEIR CREATIVE AND EXPOSITORY WRITING SKILLS, AND TO HELP TEACHERS INSPIRE THEIR STUDENTS TO WRITE.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 2 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Executive Director
$94k
$104k
Base
$94k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
Executive Director
$61k
$68k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 10 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Education

Up 27%
from 2022

From $74k in 2022 to $94k in 2023.

$74k
2022
$94k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 23% in real terms$85k to $104k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

826CHI INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.1M
$1M
2022
$891k
$952k
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Education executives earn in Illinois

Comparable education organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $79,978.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$79,978
75th percentile
$195k
90th percentile
$368k

These are education sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 362 organizations across 362 filings (2021 – 2023).

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