Illinois · Nonprofit
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,248 to it, the largest being IFF ($230,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $306k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago does
Mission
Aguijon's main objective is to explore the diversity within the Latino/Hispanic cultures through the production of Spanish language works. Wotking with ethnically diverse casts, the company continues to break down barriers even within groups often viewed as homogeneous.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
For nearly thirty-four years, it has been our goal to promote, foster, and showcase the diverse cultural excellence of Chicago's theater artists and performers. We've redoubled our efforts in this respect while also making getting artists and other workers paid and paid equitably our main goal now and moving forward. This year, we worked with 25 individual artists. In the fall of 2022, we were proud to, once again, be a part of the Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, produced by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA), with the U.S. Premiere of Norge Espinosa's CINTAS DE SEDA, directed by Sndor Menndez. The piece explores the role of women in a stifling machista society through two icons of Mexican culture: Frida Kahlo and Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz. The show starred Aguijn's Founder and Co- Artistic Director, Rosario Vargas (who received a Non-Equity Jeff Award nomination for her work), and ensemble members Marcopolo Soto and Claudia Rentera. The show ran October 13 through November 20, 2022 for a total of 20 performances. We remounted this production as part of Chicago Theater Week 2023 (February 17 - 26, 2023) for seven performances. Total audience: 1485…
$95,413 spent$163,891 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $95,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $168k to $175k (+4%).
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: 2022 7% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $8k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago’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
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 69% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago: 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 Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago?
- Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,248 to it, the largest being IFF ($230,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $306,248 in grants to Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 7 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