· Public charity
Illinois Arts Alliance
Arts alliance illinois builds the creative sector's power through advocacy and connection to resources to improve the quality of life in communities statewide.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $250k+1 grant · $309k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HMS MEDIA | $308,760 |
| BUSTLING SPACES | $37,875 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
Fosters Native artists of all backgrounds.
To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.
Presentation of World Cultural theatre to neglected communities.
To help artists develop, present and discuss their practices by providing forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration and experimental projects.
Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is a professional Equity company dedicated to elevating the lives of women through the power of theatre.
Assist in development of area cultural programs, and increase awareness of area cultural environment.
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
Advance lgbtq+ equity through community building, education, and performance.
To utilize the talents of Chicagos top-notch professional theatre artists in meaningful plays that stimulate the minds of audience members.
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illinois Arts Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Arts Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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