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ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY

EIN 37-0341210 CHAMPAIGN, IL

Revenue 2024
$761,208
Expenses 2024
$923,265

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B400
Classification
2000
Street
1001 S WRIGHT 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

ILLINI MEDIA IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING AN UNSURPASSED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ITS STUDENT EMPLOYEES AND TO KEEPING THIS MISSION AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL OUR INTERNAL DECISION-MAKING. OUR WELL-RUN, SUCCESSFUL COMPANY ALLOWS US TO OFFER A PROFESSIONAL, HANDS-ON, STUDENT-RUN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, AND TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY COMMUNICATION VEHICLES FOR READERS, LISTENERS AND VIEWERS THROUGHOUT OUR CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY.BY OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING, PROVIDING CURRENT TOOLS AND RESOURCES, AND CREATING A CHALLENGING, FAST-PACED ENVIRONMENT, ILLINI MEDIA HELPS CREATE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER JOURNALISTS, BROADCASTERS, AND MANAGERS. WHILE OUR STUDENTS LEAD OUR DAILY MEDIA OPERATIONS, THEY LEARN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAKING INDEPENDENT DECISIONS AND GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT FOR CHERISHED FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PRINCIPLES AND ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ILLINI MEDIA IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING AN UNSURPASSED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ITS STUDENT EMPLOYEES AND TO KEEPING THIS MISSION AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL OUR INTERNAL DECISION-MAKING. OUR WELL-RUN, SUCCESSFUL COMPANY ALLOWS US TO OFFER A PROFESSIONAL, HANDS-ON, STUDENT-RUN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, AND TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY COMMUNICATION VEHICLES FOR READERS, LISTENERS AND VIEWERS THROUGHOUT OUR CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY.

  • EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MEDIA PRODUCTION AND SALES CONSISTING OF A STUDENT NEWSPAPER, RADIO BROADCASTING, YEARBOOK AND A QUARTERLY STUDENT MAGAZINE.

    Expenses $725,686 · Revenue $597,885

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.

  • BOB EPSTEIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAROLINA GARIBAY

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ERIK RIHA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER OWENS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JIM SCHLUETER

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JULIE WURTH ASMUSSEN

    BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MOLLY CORNYN

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LIL LEVANT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHNATHAN HETTINGER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JJ KIM

    STUDENT BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA PASCO

    BUSINESS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $101,802
    From this org
    $101,802
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JAKE WILLIAMS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $77,125
    From this org
    $77,125
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $761,208
    Expenses
    $923,265
    Contributions
    $163,323
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $738,569
    Expenses
    $802,991
    Contributions
    $148,531
    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
    $954,260
    Expenses
    $1,138,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $660,510

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $612,688
    Expenses
    $688,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $150,177

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,048
    Expenses
    $790,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,659

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,394
    Expenses
    $800,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $152,949

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $837,035
    Expenses
    $945,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $177,366

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,059,325
    Expenses
    $1,014,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,115

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,148,293
    Expenses
    $1,174,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,251

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,387,992
    Expenses
    $1,392,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,207

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,684,244
    Expenses
    $1,462,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,552

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,106,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $253,502

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.