- Revenue 2024
- $50,411,662
- Expenses 2024
- $43,359,050
Program services were 66.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A320
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 5400 N SAINT LOUIS AVE
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.
-
CARY D MCMILLAN
TREASURER & SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.3
-
CHRIS E ABBINANTE
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.3
-
DAVID C BLOWERS
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.3
-
JAMES H WOOTEN
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK A HOPPE
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RENEE CROWN
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.3
-
SANDRA MICEK
PRESIDENT AND CEO
- Total calculated
- $752,563
- From this org
- $712,749
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $39,814
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $550,749
- Bonus
- $162,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $36,900
- Nontaxable benefits
- $2,914
- Filer's total
- $752,563
-
THERESA O FRANKIEWICZ
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALAN A BROWN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ALEXANDRA C NICHOLS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ANTHONY F WOODSIDE JR
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
CHRISTOPHER P VALENTI
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
CONNIE L LINDSEY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DANIEL E LEVIN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DAVID E ZYER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DAVID K MABIE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DAVID R OLIVENCIA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DONNA VAN EEKEREN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
DR IAN SMITH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ELIZABETH B YNTEMA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ELIZABETH DUNCAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
EMMA RODRIGUEZ -AYALA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ERIN CLIFFORD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
ESTHER ET FRANKLIN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
-
GAIL M ELDEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.7
The first 25 listed. 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. 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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $50,411,662
- Expenses
- $43,359,050
- Contributions
- $37,906,651
- Grants paid
- $5,000
-
2023
- Revenue
- $40,118,972
- Expenses
- $43,734,504
- Contributions
- $28,389,410
- Grants paid
- $23,000
-
2022
- Revenue
- $39,120,585
- Expenses
- $43,181,662
- Contributions
- $29,787,568
- Grants paid
- $52,767
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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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
-
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
$10,000
2023 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EDUCATION
-
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
$7,500
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
$7,145
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
$7,000
2023 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EDUCATION
-
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
2022 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
-
$6,000
2023 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & EDUCATION
Grants received
-
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
$3,783,034
2024 TVCSG
-
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
$3,492,723
2023 TVCSG
-
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
$3,214,270
2022 TVCSG
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$650,800
2022 Oliver Dragon Fund of WFMT, General Operating Support, Annual Fund, support for WFMT fundraising drive challenge (no tickets or tangible benefits), support of News Hour, support for the WTTW | WFMT Gala (no tickets or tangible benefits), support for producing and presenting the 9-part Chicago Tonight Monday series on ?Chicago Violence?, support for Environmental Programming, support for Jewish programming, WONDER support for Gala (no tickets or tangible benefits), WFMT challenge contribution, $1000: support for WFMT; $500: support for WTTW, $5,000: General Operating support - memorial; $25,000: support for Ken Burns' presentation of The American Buffalo, General Operating Support for TV programming, support for The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago with Geoffrey Baer, matching contribution - final installment, $5,000 support for WFMT Radio; $2,500 support for WFMT fall fundraising drive, where most needed
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$451,837
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
$412,525
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
$375,000
2023 SUPPORT PAYMENT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 as related by
-
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 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.