Illinois · Nonprofit
CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP
CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,119,976 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($240,351). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Cedille Chicago Nfp does
Mission
Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cedille Records releases an average of eight recordings per year. Recording projects are artist-driven, generated directly from the artists' interests and aesthetic sensibilities. Driven by desire to further artists' careers, Cedille continually seeks to add new artists to its roster. Cedille bears production, distribution, and promotion expenses associated with each recording, drawing from continued support by individuals and organizations, plus album sales revenue. Recordings are never removed from Cedille's catalog. Each album is intended to serve as a permanent addition to the world's catalog of classical music. Cedille works closely with artists and invests heavily in promoting each release to ensure that each will have the maximum impact on the artists' careers.
$476,486 spent$254,900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $476,486.
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 $5.8M to $8.6M (+47%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
John R Schmidt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $219k → $309k.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
38% 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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 23% · 2019 41% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
54% of CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
58% of CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $807k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP 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
Government funding CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP
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
38% 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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: 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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP?
- CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,119,976 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($240,351). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,119,976 in grants to CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP 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 42 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