Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Blues Revival
Chicago Blues Revival (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Chicago Blues Revival runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio match
- Prince Foundationshared funders
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio match
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.
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.
82% of Chicago Blues Revival’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of Chicago Blues Revival’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 Blues Revival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 86% — 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
98% of Chicago Blues Revival's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio matchIL · funds 174 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prince Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oak Park Area Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncrc Community Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Springboard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Chicago Blues Revival
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90%
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 Blues Revival: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Chicago Blues Revival?
- Chicago Blues Revival (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chicago Blues Revival have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to Chicago Blues Revival, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Blues Revival?
- REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Blues Revival 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing