Illinois · Nonprofit
ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,785 to it, the largest being PRINCE FOUNDATION ($140,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $332k
- Net assets
- $424k
What Accessible Contemporary Music does
Mission
To promote the music of living composers through concerts, educational programs and by fostering new works by composers at all levels of development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Teaches musical creativity alongside note reading to children and adults of all ages in four locations throughout Chicago in the Ravenswood, Rogers Park, Avondale, and the South Loop communities. We offer private lessons in piano, guitar, violin, cello, voice, woodwinds, and composition. Group classes for ensembles and summer camp for kids is also offered.
$642,007 spent$546,563 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $642,007.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $101k to $359k (+255%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 21% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $25k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC?
- ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,785 to it, the largest being PRINCE FOUNDATION ($140,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $331,785 in grants to ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC?
- PRINCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing