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Filing year 2024

COMMUNITY DESK CHICAGO

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 92-3414074·NTEE S31 · Community Improvement & Capacity Building·3
Total revenue
$608k
Total assets
$1.9M
Total expenses
$780k
Reported officers
9
Mission

Community Desk Chicago ("the Desk") is an Illinois 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to advance equitable economic prosperity in collaboration with historically underserved and disinvested communities. The Organization serves as a help desk and works with nonprofits, community developers and entrepreneurs to assemble the necessary capital, expertise and other resources to increase real estate development in their neighborhoods that promote a high quality of life.

Executive compensation, broken down

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

President and CEO
$172k
$184k
Base
$158k
Bonus
Other
$62
Benefits
$6k

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

Top compensation, year by year

From $35k in 2023 to $172k in 2024.

$35k
2023
$172k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 376% in real terms$39k to $184k

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

COMMUNITY DESK CHICAGO reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$2.2M
$246k
2023
$608k
$780k
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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