Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS
CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,799 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($483,943). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $604k
- Net assets
- $-401
What Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts does
Mission
Mission development and popularization of community arts aesthetic and pedagogy that speak of the immigrant experience within the changing multicultural landscape of america. Celebrate the histories and artistic legacies of america's diverse cultural terrain through participatory art creation. Vision-vibrant communities that are fully empowered to determine their collective destinies and to realize their hopes and dreams. Belief we believe in the power of the arts to reflect the immigrants' experience and to fully engage them in realizing their collective vision for their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theatrical productions - our theatrical productions for 2025 include the spring production every brilliant thing, the chicago filipino american theater festival, and the development of new plays like hail mary maria and krossroads the musical. These productions engage with community artists and provide opportunities for audiences to participate in talkbacks and dialogue.
$29,837 spent50% of program spendingCommunity engagement - monthly beat events: these events included community meet & greets, film screenings, open mics, and writing workshops aimed at strengthening community ties. 34th anniversary gala: a celebration showcasing artists' work and deepening connections within the community.
$17,902 spent30% of program spendingCultural activism - for 2025, we continued our partnership with the department of disability and human development at the university of illinois at chicago, leading storytelling workshops. Additionally, we hosted numerous workshops in the community, at schools, and at various events, including cultural conversations in partnership with the league of chicago theaters, and a storytelling workshop through the illinois humanities program, as well as community conversations with the illinois humanities.
$11,935 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,674.
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 2024 to 2025, from $19k to $599 (−97%).
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.
77% of CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Geraldine Mascarenas Leopoldo
Executive director
Board chair
Gemma Esmalla
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $27k → $69k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS’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
CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 56% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS
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.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS?
- CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,799 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($483,943). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $603,799 in grants to CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $483,943 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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