Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP
CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,503 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($133,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Elizabeth F Cheney Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared funders
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.
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.
78% of CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $8k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 FOLKS OPERETTA NFP’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 FOLKS OPERETTA NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
95% 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 FOLKS OPERETTA NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 62% — 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
95% of CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 157 organizations that share them.
- Elizabeth F Cheney Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationlocalportfolio matchIL · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Oak Park Area Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncrc Community Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Driehaus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opera America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-M Foundationportfolio 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 FOLKS OPERETTA NFP
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
63%
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 FOLKS OPERETTA 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.
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 FOLKS OPERETTA NFP?
- CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,503 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($133,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $149,503 in grants to CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA NFP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $133,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO FOLKS OPERETTA 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.
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 5funders 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