Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION
CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,822,068 to it, the largest being Polk Bros Foundation Inc ($325,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education does
Mission
Cape works toward a future in which students and communities are empowered by the integration of the arts into their lives, in realization of their academic, creative, and personal development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cape works with 40 chicago and suburban public schools to foster collaborations among professional teaching artists, classroom teachers, and arts teachers who integrate the arts across the curriculum. Collaborations take place during the school day or after and often include programs for parents. The cape model includes embedded professional development for educators that supports their work in classrooms. Cape serves low-income schools that struggle to provide a robust arts education for their students, and for schools that lack access to high-quality after-school programs. Cape's approach to teaching enhances learning in the arts as well as in other core academic areas such as reading, math, science, and social studies. As well as in social emotional learning.
$1,452,468 spent$343,838 earned by the program93% of program spendingAll cape students, artists and teachers create and take part in exhibitions and performances held at the cape gallery, located in the bridgeport neighborhood of chicago. The 4,000 square foot space hosts 5 main exhibitions per year, featuring work from cape's in-school, after-school, and parentartist programs. Students regularly visit the space to perform for each other and to reflect on their own learning as an artist. Cape hosts numerous events every year, including teacher workshops, artist conversations, panel discussions, and opening events. The cape gallery is a community space for the exploration and exhibition of arts-integrated learning.
$77,018 spent5% of program spendingCape is continually learning and incorporating new strategies for improving educational opportunities for all students. Each cape program initiative includes a substantial research and evaluation component designed to build the capacity of teachers and teaching artists. Cape has brought a new level of understanding and innovation to the field of learning through the arts by regularly publishing and sharing its work. Cape's research has demonstrated that arts learning provides multiple benefits for students, teachers, artists, parents, and schools.
$31,871 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,561,357.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+30%).
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 45% · 2018 51% · 2019 59% · 2020 80% · 2021 72% · 2022 61% · 2023 64% · 2024 50% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Amy Rasmussen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $18k → $339k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
68% of CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $262k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Education$2.3M
- National Endowment for the Arts$582k
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 PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: 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 PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION?
- CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,822,068 to it, the largest being Polk Bros Foundation Inc ($325,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,822,068 in grants to CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION?
- Polk Bros Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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