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Filing year 2024

JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 23-7093598·NTEE T20Z · Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations·3
Total revenue
$890.9M
Total assets
$9.3B
Total expenses
$0
Reported officers
20

Executive compensation

Form 990-PF · Schedule J · 20 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base salaryExecutive compensation
VP / Chief Investment Officer
vice president
$2.5M
$2.7M
Director / President
unclassified
$1.1M
$1.2M
VP / General Counsel / Secretary
vice president
$737k
$789k
Senior VP / Chief Operating Officer
$713k
$763k
Board Chair
board chair
$45k
$48k
Board Trustee
board member
$28k
$30k
Board Trustee
board member
$28k
$29k
Board Trustee
board member
$27k
$29k
Board Trustee
board member
$27k
$29k
Board Trustee
board member
$27k
$28k
Board Trustee
board member
$26k
$28k
Board Trustee
board member
$26k
$28k
Board Trustee
board member
$26k
$27k
Board Trustee
board member
$14k
$15k
Board Trustee
board member
$14k
$15k
Board Trustee
board member
$14k
$15k
Arc Board Trustee
board member
$10k
$11k
Board Trustee
board member
$10k
$11k
Arc Board Trustee
board member
$10k
$11k
Board Trustee
board member
$9k
$10k

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.

Browse compensation in Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking

Up 11%
from 2023

From $2.3M in 2023 to $2.5M in 2024.

$2.3M
2023
$2.5M
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 7% in real terms$2.5M to $2.7M

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

JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$613.8M
2023
$890.9M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking executives earn in Illinois

Comparable philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $28,352.

25th percentile
$11k
Median
$28,352
75th percentile
$80k
90th percentile
$180k

These are philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 1,000 organizations across 1,000 filings (2021 – 2024).

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