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3arts Inc

Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc.

$909k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$398kEducation$181kPublic Benefit$24kHealth$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $58,848, the rows itemized in this filing. The $909,197 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $850,349 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$15,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE ARTISTS COMMUNITIES$32,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILL FOUNDATION$15,400
LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY$6,183
Center for Native Futures$5,265
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Backbones: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$486k · 6 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$486k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +241%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +127%
  • FS
    Free Street Theater
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UI
    UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -24%
  • Deeply Rooted Productions Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • JI
    Jazz Institute of Chicago
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -61%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective

A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.

Arts & Culture
3
Open Space Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Constellation Performing Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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6
Equity Arts

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…

—
7
South Chicago Dance Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Pegasus Theatre Chicago

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…

—
10
Audience Architects Nfp dba See Chicago Dance

To advocate for the dance field and strengthen a diverse range of dance organizations and artists through services and programs that build and engage audiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Dance Institute

Advance art education in Chicago schools

Arts & Culture
12
3ARTS Inc

Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc. (the Organization) is an Illinois not-for-profit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Improv Arts Midwest; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $229,950 · Community ImprovementARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCEUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $181,160 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationCenter for Native Futures: $11,265 · Arts & CultureCenter for Native…Deeply Rooted Productions Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDeeply Rooted Pro…Jazz Institute of Chicago: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJazz Institute of…LINKS HALL INC: $9,496 · Arts & CultureLINKS HALL INCTELLIN TALES THEATRE: $7,620 · Arts & CultureTELLIN TALES THEA…AYODELE DRUM AND DANCE NFP: $7,000 · Arts & CultureAYODELE DRUM AND …LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $6,183 · Arts & CultureLOOKINGGLASS THEA…HEDWIG DANCES INC: $6,137 · Arts & CultureHEDWIG DANCES INCAsian Improv Arts Midwest: $5,180 · Arts & CultureAsian Improv Arts…A House Unbuilt % Victoria Bradford Styrbicki: $5,171 · Arts & CultureA House Unbuilt %…THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE: $5,153 · Arts & CultureTHE BACH & BEETHO…HONEY POT PERFORMANCE: $5,080 · Arts & CultureHONEY POT PERFORM…MANDALA SOUTH ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,004 · Arts & CultureMANDALA SOUTH ASI…Free Street Theater: $30,000 · OtherFree Street T…UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: $12,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN INS…MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $10,000 · OtherMARIAN AND ED…NY2Dance: $6,827 · OtherNY2DanceLuftwerk Ltd: $5,572 · OtherLuftwerk LtdHaiku Festival Chicago: $5,122 · OtherHaiku Festiva…RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC: $5,025 · OtherRED CLAY DANC…NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $23,635 · Public BenefitBACKBONES: $6,662 · Human Services
Community Improvement$229,950Education$181,160Arts & Culture$93,289Other$74,546Public Benefit$23,635Human Services$6,662

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $229,950 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $181,160 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFree Street Theater: $30,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $23,635 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Native Futures: $11,265 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJazz Institute of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLINKS HALL INC: $9,496 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTELLIN TALES THEATRE: $7,620 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAYODELE DRUM AND DANCE NFP: $7,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBACKBONES: $6,662 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $6,183 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEDWIG DANCES INC: $6,137 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE: $5,153 over 1y, 14% of budgetHONEY POT PERFORMANCE: $5,080 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC: $5,025 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMANDALA SOUTH ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,004 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Chicago Community…Field Foundation of I…Ncrc Community Develo…The Joyce FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Walder FoundationThe Map Fund IncLloyd a Fry FoundationJohn D and Catherine …The Weasel FundThe Richard H Driehau…
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley FoundationIL29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 3arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 3arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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