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Oak Park Area Arts Council

To promote local arts industry.

$201k
Granted FY2022
23
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2022 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $153,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,800 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k18 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINIFRED HAUN DANCE$10,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK PARK RIVER FOREST$10,000
OAK PARK FESTIVAL THEATRE$10,000
WONDER WORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$10,000
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
MOMENTA DANCE COMPANY$7,500
PING PROVIDING INSTRUMENTS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION$7,500
SYMPHONY OF OAK PARK RIVER FOREST$7,500
CHICAGO WEST COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$7,000
SPECTRUM CHORAL SOCIETY$6,000
ILLINOIS STORYTELLING$6,000
OAK PARK ART LEAGUE$6,000
CHICAGO A CAPPELLA$5,500
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO$5,000
PLEASANT HOME FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $5k → 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 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
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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2
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago
Arts & Culture
3
Opera Festival of Chicago

To present world-class standard productions of italian opera masterpieces.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Choral Artists Dba Consonance

Chicago Choral Artists endeavor to heighten appreciation of the choral art form through outstanding presentation of classical masterworks and music of the world's many cultures and by commissions. The ensemble seeks to nurture the artistic…

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5
William Ferris Chorale

Sing concerts of music of the 20th and 21st centuries

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Harp Quartet
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7
Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra of Chicago

Classical music performance.

Arts & Culture
8
Working in Concert

To educate on various forms of musicial styles

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Fringe Opera

Chicago Fringe Opera is dedicated to presenting innovative vocal works with an emphasis on new and contemporary styles, engaging with the Chicago community through intimate and immersive performance experiences, and fostering and…

Arts & Culture
10
Artemisia a Chicago Theatre

Performing Arts (Ballet, Symphony, Theatre) Artemisia develops and produces all-new feminist plays to empower women.

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Composers Orchestra

To perform and promote orchestral music by living composers.

Arts & Culture
12
Baroque Artists of Champaign Urbana

Promotion of musical training and appreciation

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momenta; the most unlike its peers is Ping Providing Instruments for the Next Generation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the 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 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST: $10,000 · OtherTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FORESTOak Park Festival Theatre: $10,000 · OtherOak Park Festival TheatreMOMENTA: $7,500 · OtherMOMENTASymphony of Oak Park & River Forest: $7,500 · OtherSymphony of Oak Park & River ForestSpectrum Choral Society DBA Heritage Chorale: $6,000 · OtherSpectrum Choral Society DBA Heritage ChoraleOAK PARK ART LEAGUE: $6,000 · OtherOAK PARK ART LEAGUECOMPOUND YELLOW: $5,000 · OtherCOMPOUND YELLOWOAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC: $5,000 · OtherOAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INCPLEASANT HOME FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherPLEASANT HOME FOUNDATIONEXPRESSIONS GRAPHICS WORKSHOP INC: $5,000 · OtherEXPRESSIONS GRAPHICS WORKSHOP INCOriana Singers: $5,000 · OtherOriana SingersWINIFRED HAUN & DANCERS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWINIFRED HAUN & DANCERSCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK PARK: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK PARKPING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation: $7,500 · Arts & CulturePING Providing Instruments For The Next Gener…Chicago West Community Music Center: $7,000 · Arts & CultureChicago West Community Music CenterILLINOIS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL INCCHICAGO A CAPPELLA: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO A CAPPELLAOak Park River Forest Civic Theatre: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOak Park River Forest Civic TheatreCHOREOSPACE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHOREOSPACE INCFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUSTDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationUNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · ReligionUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$72,000Arts & Culture$61,000Education$10,000Religion$5,000Human Services$5,000

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

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
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.

Oak Park-River Forest…Ncrc Community Develo…The Chicago Community…Good Heart Work Smart…Gaylord and Dorothy D…John D and Catherine …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oak Park Area Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oak Park Area Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Oak Park Area Arts Council?

    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.

    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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