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← CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$13,368,780
Total expenses
$15,042,346
Contributions and grants received
$7,146,964
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$871,653
Investment income
$4,835,511
Other revenue
$514,652
Total assets, end of year
$125,966,733
Total liabilities, end of year
$58,465,005
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$67,501,728
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$8,813,767
Management and general expenses
$4,980,744
Fundraising expenses
$1,247,835
Program service expenses (Part III)
$8,813,767

Program services were 58.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Donald Lassere

    President and CEO

    Total calculated
    $304,302
    From this org
    $304,302
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $304,302
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $304,302

  • Cheryl Obermeyer

    Vice President of Finance

    Total calculated
    $216,735
    From this org
    $216,735
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Thema McDonald

    Vice President of Marketing & Communications

    Total calculated
    $148,417
    From this org
    $148,417
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Michael Anderson

    Director Institutional Advancement, Major Gifts

    Total calculated
    $147,383
    From this org
    $147,383
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Shatierra Parks

    Senior Director of Human Resources

    Total calculated
    $110,435
    From this org
    $110,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Maria Di Lorenzo

    General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $108,750
    From this org
    $108,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Ralph G Moore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jennifer Kirk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark Potter

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jonathon Skinner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Arnaldo Rivera

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Daniel S Jaffee

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dionne Danns

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gary S Feinerman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • John N Low

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David A Mordini

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Elizabeth D Richter

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • T Bondurant French

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lafayette J Ford

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Sallie L Gaines

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Alejandra Garza

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Timothy J Gilfoyle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mary Lou Gorno

    Trustee-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David D Hiller

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Randye A Kogan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert C Lee

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Joseph Seliga

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Samuel J Tinaglia

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ali Velshi

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gail Ward

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Monica M Weed

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert R Yohanan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Tobin E Hopkins

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • James L Alexander

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David P Bolger

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Paul Carlisle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Paul H Dykstra

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Walter C Carlson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Guillermo Garcia

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Janice Jackson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lei Shen

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark D Trembacki

    Trustee-Second Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Warren K Chapman

    Trustee-First Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michael Barzyk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert Manuel

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Maggie M Morgan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • J Michael Whitted

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • James P Duff

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202521369349301302

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