· Public charity
Hyde Park Art Center
The purpose of the HYDE PARK ART CENTER (the art center) is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in chicago.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $120,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $257,640 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,640 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGUILAR ALBERTO | $8,000 |
| JUCAS BRIAN | $8,000 |
| GRAHAM CENTRAL STATIONLLC | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIE MILO | $8,000 |
| BRIDGE ART NFP | $8,000 |
| TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID | $8,000 |
| AGNES FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC | $8,000 |
| ART CENTER OF ENGLEWOOD INC | $8,000 |
| PATE ISRAEL | $8,000 |
| WAGNER ANNA | $8,000 |
| HOPE WANG STUDIOS LLC | $8,000 |
| JULIUS CAESAR GALLERY NFP | $8,000 |
| PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| DORIAN SYLVAIN STUDIOS LLC | $8,000 |
| SPRANGLER PHILIP | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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 +303% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- RSROMAN SUSAN ART FOUNDATION NFP2× · 2021–2023 · $36k · revenue +303%
- RIROME IN A DAY PRODUCTIONS CHICAGO2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +480%
- CYCOMPOUND YELLOW2× · 2021–2023 · $20k
Funded once
- ASANIMATE STUDIO LLCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SCSPACESHIFT COLLECTIVE LLCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- MMMARIMACHA MONARCA PRESS LLCone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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…
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…
Bringing together arts and culture on Chicago's far south side. Everyone deserves access to art, and creators should be treated like family.
Match Works provides financial support to Chicago visual artists to support the production of new artwork.
ASG is an exhibition and performance space dedicated to the exploration and presentation of immersive works. We provide extensive in-house resources and expertise that enable artists to promote intellectual and tangible artworks in a…
To promote armenian contemporary experimental art
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folded Map Project and the most unlike its peers is Narrow Bridge Art Club. 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 9 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 58 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 ROMAN SUSAN ART FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds ROME IN A DAY PRODUCTIONS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds VGA Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NARROW BRIDGE ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds FOLDED MAP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALT SPACE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOTS & CULTURE CONTEMPORARY ARTCENTER ↗
- Who funds The Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions ↗
- Who funds Experimental Sound Studio ↗
- Who funds TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID INC ↗
- Who funds WEDGE PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Art Department ↗
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 · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Builders Vision Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Walder Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hyde Park Art Center 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.