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Filing year 2023

FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 36-4456215·NTEE O50 · Youth Development·3
Total revenue
$964k
Total assets
$798k
Total expenses
$945k
Reported officers
9
Mission

Free Spirit Medias mission is to partner with young storytellers to transform media and society. Free Spirit Media partners with young storytellers, ages 11-25 and primarily from the west and south sides of Chicago, to develop and amplifytheir unique and critical voices through storytelling and media arts. We do this through our holistic creative youth development programming which focuses on community-building, skill-sharing and career and education pathways that support young people to envision and build their futures as artists and within the media industry and beyond.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2023

Executive Dir.
Officer (Unspecified)
$102k
$112k

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 Youth Development

Pay in context

Top pay as a share of expenses

In 2023, the highest total compensation at FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP equaled 11% of the organization's total expenses. The median for youth development organizations is 11%.

This organization (2023)
11%
Sector median
11%
Middle half of sector
5% to 21%

Based on 5,115 youth development organizations, each measured at its most recent filing year with reported expenses and compensation.

Down 4%
from 2022

From $106k in 2022 to $102k in 2023.

$106k
2022
$102k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 7% in real terms$121k to $112k

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.

Among peers

Revenue and top compensation, plotted against similar organizations. This organization is highlighted in cyan.

FAQ

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What are FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP's revenue and expenses?

In 2023, FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP reported $964k in total revenue and $945k in total expenses on its IRS Form 990.

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