Chicagos Green City Market Program

Analysis

Chicagos Green City Market Program is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Chicagos Green City Market Program reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.4m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $785k to $1.5m (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Chicagos Green City Market Program sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Beyond Legal Aid ($1.5m), Nonotuck Community School Inc ($1.5m) and American Vineyard Foundation ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 25% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $136k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $470k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $8,886, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 17 employees.