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CITY BUREAU NFP

EIN 81-1054499 CHICAGO, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2025
$7,291,026
Expenses 2025
$6,150,002

Program services were 77.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1200
Street
3619 S STATE ST STE 400

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 · 2025

Mission

MEDIA EDUCATION ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON PROVIDING CIVIC INFORMATION TO NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDES OF CHICAGO, FACILITATING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AROUND JOURNALISM AND MEDIA, AND DEVELOPING AND TESTING NEW MODELS OF CIVIC JOURNALISM.

  • CITY BUREAU CARRIED OUT ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING ITS MISSION TO STRENGTHEN CIVIC JOURNALISM AND EXPAND ACCESS TO RELIABLE PUBLIC INFORMATION. THESE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED NEWSROOM TRAINING INITIATIVES, COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM PROJECTS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS, AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS TO ADVANCE PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM PRACTICES. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO DEVELOPED TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDITORIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITY REPORTING AND THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CIVIC INFORMATION TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. THROUGH THESE INITIATIVES, CITY BUREAU CONTINUED TO EXPAND PUBLIC ACCESS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, SUPPORT EMERGING JOURNALISTS, AND STRENGTHEN NETWORKS OF COMMUNITY-CENTERED MEDIA PRACTITIONERS.

    Expenses $3,976,241 · Grants $192,985 · Revenue $50,663

  • CONTINUED GROWTH OF PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM AIMED AT INFORMING RESIDENTS ABOUT CIVIC ISSUES THROUGH JOURNALISM AND MEDIA TRAINING. 12 EMERGING JOURNALISTS PARTICIPATED IN INTENSIVE TRAINING IN COMMUNITY REPORTING PRACTICES. TRAINED 191 RESIDENTS AS DOCUMENTERS TO TAKE NOTES AT PUBLIC MEETINGS. FACILITATED 654 DOCUMENTERS ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDING COVERAGE OF 295 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS. HOSTED 36 FREE WORKSHOPS SERVING 444 INDIVIDUALS. CONSULTED WITH MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY ON PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM PRACTICES. SUPPORTED PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN LAUNCHING DOCUMENTERS PARTICIPATORY MEDIA PROGRAM IN COLUMBUS, KANSAS CITY, COLUMBIA GORGE, TULSA.

    Expenses $774,255 · Revenue $774,255

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Morgan Malone

    Frmr Exec Dir

    Total calculated
    $218,093
    From this org
    $218,093
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,768
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $98,325
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $218,093

  • Jody Chong

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $160,575
    From this org
    $160,575
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,575
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $160,575

  • Harrison Backlund

    CSO

    Total calculated
    $144,007
    From this org
    $144,007
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Eva Lacivita

    Production Dir

    Total calculated
    $133,273
    From this org
    $133,273
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kristin Fallica

    Communication Dir

    Total calculated
    $126,615
    From this org
    $126,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sonam Vashi

    Network Dir

    Total calculated
    $119,393
    From this org
    $119,393
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alaa Almezanin

    Director of Ops

    Total calculated
    $119,006
    From this org
    $119,006
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joe Germuska

    Chair/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassie Haynes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Lee Haines

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kali Plomin

    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. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,291,026
    Expenses
    $6,150,002
    Contributions
    $6,389,231
    Grants paid
    $192,985
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,656,184
    Expenses
    $4,944,861
    Contributions
    $4,156,399
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,724,643
    Expenses
    $4,972,899
    Contributions
    $3,880,965
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,646,778
    Expenses
    $3,798,635
    Contributions
    $3,285,423
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,163,542
    Expenses
    $3,128,140
    Contributions
    $3,979,568
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $2,390,104
    Expenses
    $1,956,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,720,494

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,391,124
    Expenses
    $1,911,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,720,495

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,607,136
    Expenses
    $1,383,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,244,523

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,778
    Expenses
    $957,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,013,362

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,729,180
    Expenses
    $628,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,183,785

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,729,180
    Expenses
    $628,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,183,785

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.

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Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.