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Filing year 2024

BERNIE'S BOOK BANK

Lake Bluff, Illinois·EIN 27-0914453·NTEE O50 · Youth Development·3
Total revenue
$6.4M
Total assets
$7.7M
Total expenses
$5.7M
Reported officers
23
Mission

BERNIE'S BOOK BANK SOURCES, PROCESSES AND DISTRIBUTES QUALITY NEW AND GENTLY USED CHILDREN'S BOOKS TO INCREASE BOOK OWNERSHIP AMONG CHILDREN THROUGHOUT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN CHICAGO AND THE SIX SURROUNDING COUNTIES, AS WELL AS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 3 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Founder
officer (unspecified)
$193k
$207k
Base
$95k
Bonus
$81k
Other
Benefits
$15k
Executive Director
$151k
$161k
Base
$134k
Bonus
$15k
Other
Benefits
$134
Chief Executive Officer (thru 6/24)
$127k
$136k

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 20 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Youth Development

Up 8%
from 2023

From $178k in 2023 to $193k in 2024.

$178k
2023
$193k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 5% in real terms$198k to $207k

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

BERNIE'S BOOK BANK reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$6M
$5.9M
2023
$6.4M
$5.7M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Youth Development executives earn

Comparable youth development organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $65,236.

25th percentile
$27k
Median
$65,236
75th percentile
$118k
90th percentile
$187k

These are youth development sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 1,380 organizations across 1,380 filings (2021 – 2023).

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