City Bureau NFP

Analysis

City Bureau NFP is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, City Bureau NFP reported income of $3.6m and spending of $3.8m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $773k to $3.6m (+372%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 237%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, City Bureau NFP sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg Fla Inc ($3.6m), The HDF Group ($3.7m) and Childrens Museum of Richmond ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 9.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.8m. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 28 employees.