· Public charity
3arts Inc
Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $58,848 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $909,197 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $850,349 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE ARTISTS COMMUNITIES | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILL FOUNDATION | $15,400 |
| LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY | $6,183 |
| Center for Native Futures | $5,265 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ACARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +241%
University of Illinois Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +127%- FSFree Street Theater2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UIUKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ARTone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -24%
Deeply Rooted Productions Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +16%- JIJazz Institute of Chicagoone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.
Open Space Arts is a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to producing bold LGBTQ-focused theater and presenting independent queer cinema. The organization supports emerging and established artists while engaging audiences through live…
Center in chicago for arts community purpose
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
EQUITY ARTS is a center for the creative economy that advances racial equity and wealth-building for artists and entrepreneurs. This reparative ownership model preserves space for synergistic exchanges between value-aligned partners. The…
South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is a multicultural organization seamlessly fusing classical and contemporary dance styles as well as preserving historic dance work. With Choreographic Diplomacy at the heart of the organization, the…
Pegasus Theatre Chicago is a professional theater approaching 45 years of supporting Chicagos diverse community by producing accessible, socially relevant theatre and promoting the development of new artists for the stage. Our mission is…
The Story Theatre will pose questions, rather than provide answers. We develop and produce new work that is whimsical, melancholic, mythic in vision, and intimate in scale. We are run by a governing artistic ensemble, who ensures our work…
To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Improv Arts Midwest and the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Free Street Theater ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Center for Native Futures ↗
- Who funds Deeply Rooted Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds LINKS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds TELLIN TALES THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AYODELE DRUM AND DANCE NFP ↗
- Who funds BACKBONES ↗
- Who funds LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HEDWIG DANCES INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Improv Arts Midwest ↗
- Who funds A House Unbuilt % Victoria Bradford Styrbicki ↗
- Who funds THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds HONEY POT PERFORMANCE ↗
- Who funds RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MANDALA SOUTH ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Field Foundation of Illinois · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Joyce Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Walder Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Weasel Fund · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 3arts Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.