Chicago Athenaeum the Center for Architecture Art and Urban Studies

Analysis

Chicago Athenaeum the Center for Architecture Art and Urban Studies is a registered charity in United States, based in Galena, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Chicago Athenaeum the Center for Architecture Art and Urban Studies reported income of $619k and spending of $797k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $608k to $619k (+1.8%), an average of +0.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Chicago Athenaeum the Center for Architecture Art and Urban Studies sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heart of Hope Ministries Inc ($619k), Area Health Education Ctr of Mid Rio Grande Border Area of TX Inc ($619k) and Maristan ($619k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $310k (39% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $76k. At year end it held assets of $621k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $621k. It reported 3 employees.