Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT
CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,492 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($69,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Chicago Arts and Music Project does
Mission
Chicago Arts and Music Project provides free el sistema orchestral training in chicago s east garfield neighborhood.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Chicago Arts and Music Project provides free el sistema orchestral training in chicago s east garfield park neighborhood. 55 students were served.
$171,810 spentof which $116,400 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $171,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $16k to $49k (+203%).
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.
26% of CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Board chair
Molly Hunsinger
Board president
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $35k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT’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
CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
56% 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 CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT: 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 CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT?
- CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,492 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($69,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $125,492 in grants to CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $69,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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