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Oak Park Area Arts Council

To promote local arts industry.

$201k
Granted FY2022
23
Itemized grants FY2022
23
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$153k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$10,000
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$387k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Oak Park Area Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWinifred Haun & Dancers: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetChildren's Museum of Oak Park: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDominican University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOak Park Festival Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMomenta: $7,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSymphony of Oak Park & River Forest: $7,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation: $7,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetChicago West Community Music Center: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIllinois Storytelling Festival Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetSpectrum Choral Society DBA Heritage Chorale: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOak Park Art League: $6,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetChicago a Cappella: $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUnity Temple Restoration Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOak Park Concert Chorale Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOak Park River Forest Civic Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChoreospace Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetPleasant Home Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetOriana Singers: $5,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFrank Lloyd Wright Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Oak Park-River Forest Community FoundationIL26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Oak Park Area Arts Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Oak Park Area Arts Council

How much does Oak Park Area Arts Council give?
Oak Park Area Arts Council reported 23 itemized grants totaling $153,000, out of $200,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Oak Park Area Arts Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Health (3%).
Who are Oak Park Area Arts Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Winifred Haun & Dancers ($10k), Children's Museum of Oak Park ($10k), The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest ($10k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Oak Park Area Arts Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Oak Park Area Arts Council based?
Oak Park Area Arts Council is based in IL.

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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $108k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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