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CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT

EIN 46-5739978 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$864,819
Expenses 2024
$771,720

Program services were 58.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W99
Classification
1000
Street
301 W GRAND AVENUE 170

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).

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.

  • PAULA FROEHLE

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $147,126
    From this org
    $138,914
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,212
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEVEN COHEN

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • DANIEL O ASH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBORAH DANSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICKY HAYMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEN O'KEEFE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUDY WISE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEN NOLAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW SCHWERTFEGER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELENA VALENTINE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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 — 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
    $864,819
    Expenses
    $771,720
    Contributions
    $841,295
    Grants paid
    $90,586
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $864,819
    Expenses
    $771,241
    Contributions
    $831,295
    Grants paid
    $90,586
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,572,648
    Expenses
    $1,321,172
    Contributions
    $859,365
    Grants paid
    $89,008
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $703,723
    Expenses
    $1,221,034
    Contributions
    $652,023
    Grants paid
    $233,982

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.