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PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE

EIN 20-2448077 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$784,000
Expenses 2024
$1,661,249

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
960 W 31ST ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION is to create, incubate, and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, community spaces, exhibitions, and media.

  • MDW - Its an annual program to convene artists and arts organizations from the Midwest to connect and exchange ideas. The program includes an art fair, also known as the MdW Assembly, an online publication called the MdW Atlas, and a series of trips to various sites in the Midwest called the MdW Drifts.

    Expenses $546,008

  • BUDDY - Offers a shop committed to giving artists and small manufacturers in Chicago a place to showcase and sell their goods and artworks to a vast audience of Chicagoans and visitors at the Chicago Cultural Center.

    Expenses $417,709 · Revenue $341,233

  • LUMPEN MEDIA - The program is a small-scale online television and 24/7 radio station complete with a camera crew and stage set to provide opportunities for artists to produce and air original moving image artworks. The station is a hub for local, multilingual storytelling for communities on Chicago South's Side and beyond.

    Expenses $271,678 · Revenue $42,578

  • CO-PROSPERITY - The Organization hosts exhibitions, screenings, presentations, installations, festivals, meetings, and performance programs in its 5,000+ square foot gallery.

    Expenses $167,195 · Revenue $20,068

  • COMMUNITY KITCHEN - Provides complimentary box lunches to in-need residents, families, and health care workers in Chicago while supporting local restaurants and farmers.

    Expenses $27,506 · Revenue $2,537

  • LUMPEN MAGAZINE - The Organization issues a quarterly news and culture magazine featuring emerging and established artists and writers. The magazine features editorials, interviews, and reviews focused on current events and emerging cultural trends.

    Expenses $23,346 · Revenue $1,342

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nicholas Wylie

    MANAGING DIR.

    Total calculated
    $62,792
    From this org
    $62,792
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Edward Marszewski

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Brenda Hernandez

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Logan Bay

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Babbington

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maria Marszewski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rev Dr Joseph Henry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachael Olson-Marszewski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scottie McNiece

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $784,000
    Expenses
    $1,661,249
    Contributions
    $292,723
    Grants paid
    $182,200
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,989,011
    Expenses
    $1,214,006
    Contributions
    $2,604,670
    Grants paid
    $147,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $882,376
    Expenses
    $1,189,971
    Contributions
    $571,386
    Grants paid
    $121,613

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,102,184
    Expenses
    $1,388,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $772,433

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,657,968
    Expenses
    $751,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,022,361

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019, reinstated 15 May 2019.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.