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Filing year 2024

A Better Chicago

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 27-4499625·NTEE P20 · Human Services·3
Total revenue
$12.4M
Total assets
$20.7M
Total expenses
$7.5M
Reported officers
19
Mission

A BETTER CHICAGO IS CHANGING HOW CHICAGO FIGHTS POVERTY BY INVESTING IN BOLD IDEAS THAT CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR YOUTH.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 5 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base
$392k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$20k
Base
$189k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$16k
CIO
chief information officer
$178k
$191k
Base
$163k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$15k
Managing Director
highest compensated employee
$151k
$162k
Base
$137k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$14k
Director of Development
$142k
$152k

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 14 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Human Services

Up 6%
from 2023

From $391k in 2023 to $413k in 2024.

$391k
2023
$413k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 2% in real terms$433k to $442k

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

A Better Chicago reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$8.7M
$7.6M
2023
$12.4M
$7.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Human Services executives earn in Illinois

Comparable human services organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $82,960.

25th percentile
$33k
Median
$82,960
75th percentile
$165k
90th percentile
$258k

These are human services sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 274 organizations across 274 filings (2021 – 2023).

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