Illinois · Nonprofit
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,774 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,140,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc does
Mission
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the continued restoration and preservation of the National Historic Landmark Auditorium Theatre.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Auditorium is a multi-disciplinary presenting organization, celebrating today's finest artistic talent and cutting-edge thought-leaders in dance, music, comedy, musical theater, and spoken word. The 2024/25 season highlights included Sigur Ros, Hillary Clinton, Sting, Ina Garten, Mean Girls the Musical, and Jason Isbell. The renowned Presented Dance Season included Step Afrika!, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Parsons Dance, and Hiplet Ballerinas. In partnership with the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, we continued the Philm Series with 6 live to picture concert presentations. Additional programming included The Auditorium's self-produced musical experience, "Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz Gospel Messiah, Dance for Life 2025, featuring local dance artists to benefit the Chicago Dance Health Fund. Beyond 89 public performances and 4 student matinees presented this year, The Auditorium sustained its core creative engagement initiatives, including ArtsXChange, an immersive year long professional development program for educators; ADMIT ONE, which supports access for community groups facing barriers to attending live…
$21,360,530 spent$18,771,218 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,360,530.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $14M (+150%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 49% · 2022 41% · 2023 4% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Richard Regan
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Thomas R Baryl
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $251k → $2.2M.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 46% · 2019 29% · 2020 53% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.2M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $795k on record.
- Department of the Interior$625k
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roosevelt University · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc: 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 Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc?
- Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,774 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,140,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,868,774 in grants to Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc?
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc 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 32 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