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Filing year 2024

CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

Oakland, California·EIN 84-3448887·NTEE A30 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$5.3M
Total assets
$1.5M
Total expenses
$5.1M
Reported officers
18
Mission

Cityside Journalism Initiative (Cityside) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization committed to building community through local journalism. Cityside provides readers with fact-driven, nonpartisan, informative reporting that seeks to reflect the diversity and complexity of the communities it serves. Cityside operates three newsrooms, Berkeleyside, The Oaklandside and Richmondside, to provide local journalism in these cities.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 10 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Vp, Client Partnerships
vice president
$211k
$224k
Base
$128k
Bonus
$70k
Other
Benefits
$5k
Senior Director of Development
$177k
$188k
Base
$171k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$75
$164k
$173k
Base
$156k
Bonus
$213
Other
Benefits
$1k
Treas, Eic, So
officer (unspecified)
$161k
$170k
Base
$154k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$110
Secy & Chief Co
officer (unspecified)
$151k
$160k
Base
$136k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Editor in Chief
officer (unspecified)
$147k
$156k
Director of Events
unclassified
$118k
$125k
Dir Com Journalism
unclassified
$116k
$123k
Director of People
unclassified
$116k
$122k
Dir Product & Plat
unclassified
$115k
$122k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 8 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Down 15%
from 2023

From $248k in 2023 to $211k in 2024.

$248k
2023
$211k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 17% in real terms$270k to $224k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 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

CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$3.8M
$4.2M
2023
$5.3M
$5.1M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in California

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $66,860.

25th percentile
$28k
Median
$66,860
75th percentile
$120k
90th percentile
$221k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 630 organizations across 630 filings (2021 – 2023).

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