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Filing year 2024

ChicagoFIRST Association

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 20-2787459·NTEE S41 · Community Improvement & Capacity Building·6
Total revenue
$641k
Total assets
$1.5M
Total expenses
$428k
Reported officers
9
Mission

ChicagoFIRST is a non-profit association of private firms in the Chicagoland area that collaborate with one another and with government at all levels to promote the resilience of its members and the Chicago business community. ChicagoFIRST functions as both insurance in the event of a crisis and as an investment in collaborating with one another and with the public sector at all levels. No other organization combines local preparedness with a national network so as to enhance resilience regionally. This is the unique vision of ChicagoFIRST.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Executive Director
$227k
$243k
Base
$219k
Bonus
Other
Benefits

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 8 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Up 5%
from 2023

From $217k in 2023 to $227k in 2024.

$217k
2023
$227k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 1% in real terms$240k to $243k

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

ChicagoFIRST Association reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$605k
$442k
2023
$641k
$428k
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Community Improvement & Capacity Building executives earn in Illinois

Comparable community improvement & capacity building organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $71,702.

25th percentile
$29k
Median
$71,702
75th percentile
$120k
90th percentile
$222k

These are community improvement & capacity building sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 98 organizations across 98 filings (2021 – 2023).

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