How much did LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION reported 16 grants totaling $205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION based?

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION is based in IL.

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION

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LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION supports the work of league of chicago theatres through grantmaking and fundraising.

$205k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$656kYouth Development$46kHuman Services$27kCommunity Improvement$20kCivil Rights$10kOther$213k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

powering arts

2020

preventative maintenancepowering arts

2021

artisticpowering arts

2022

powering arts

2023

theatre

2024

powering arts

2025

powering arts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $26k
$10k–50k13 grants · $175k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$25,000
CHICAGO CHILDRENS THEATRE$25,000
CENTER FOR THE PERF ARTS GSU$25,000
Maywood Fine Arts Association$10,000
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOC$10,000
CHICAGO BLUES MUSEUM$10,000
NONOP Arts and Humanities$10,000
SALT CREEK BALLET$10,000
JOEL HALL DANCERS & CENTER$10,000
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$10,000
ILLINOIS PHILHARMONICA ORCHES$10,000
MUNTU DANCE THEATRE$10,000
Elmhurst Art Museum$10,000
ART ENCOUNTER$9,500
SUBTEXT STUDIO THEATER$8,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$158k · 7 repeat orgs$813k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$158k

$657k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+44%

Still filing today

100%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

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Chicago Childrens Theatre
2× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +78%
MF
Maywood Fine Arts Association
3× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +76%
TW
Theater Wit
2× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +43%

Funded once

TY
THEATRE Ygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +353% · 33% of their budget
UT
Underscore Theatre Company
one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue -100%
AP
Albany Park Theater Projectgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +49%

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

04Your field

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.

Teatro Vista Theater With a View Inc

Teatro Vista Productions is a non-profit theatre-based company dedicated to multidisciplinary artists of color whose artistic expression on stage and beyond is rooted in the transformative power of owning and telling our own stories.

Arts & Culture

Hyde Park Theatre

Hyde Park Theatre produces and presents contemporary performances and contemporary visual art.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.

Arts & Culture

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation

The Black Ensemble Theater Corporation provides opportunity for training, employment and cultural enrichment for minority artist in the Chicagoland area.

Arts & Culture

Illinois Theatre Association

We promote theatre in Illinois. Our members are students, educators, community & professional theaters, actors & producers all joined together to support the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture

The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company

To utilize the talents of Chicagos top-notch professional theatre artists in meaningful plays that stimulate the minds of audience members.

Arts & Culture

Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company, a professional, multi-racial company, promotes cultural pluralism and individual equality through artistic excellence, using theatre to address artificial barriers that keep people from succeeding in American…

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Pegasus Theatre Chicago

Pegasus Theater Chicago ("Theater") is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation that was founded in 1978. The Theater produces and performs theatrical productions for the general public, and through various other programs, provides a service…

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Redtwist Theatre

Redtwist is a theatre company. We have been a theatre company in the uptown since 2001 and just recently were able to renovate and begin to expand. We were able to put on three main stage shows and a staged reading festival that included…

Arts & Culture

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

Chicago International Puppet Theater

Creating innovative puppetry performances utilizing musical, literary, and puppetry traditions.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Children's Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Court Theatre Fund. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%3/81

the rest of the field

14%

4,318/31,429

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.

05the grantee network

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

74/78

Grantees still filing

56/78

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$655,801Other$212,569Youth Development$45,578Human Services$27,212Community Improvement$20,000Civil Rights$10,000

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.

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.

Ncrc Community Development Fund IncDC59.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Prince Foundation · Walder Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial

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 organisation LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THEATRE Y.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208459362 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THEATRE Y, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to League of Chicago Theatres Foundation?

Find your warmest path to League of Chicago Theatres Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to League of Chicago Theatres Foundation?

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LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to League of Chicago Theatres Foundation?

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