Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER
CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,129 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $767k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $264k
- Net assets
- $-180755
What Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center does
Mission
The Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center's mission is to offer the highest quality dance instruction in an environment that celebrates the diversity of its students and the community. This includes world-class choreography, performance, professional and pre-professional training and community outreach that "connects" with new and experienced multi-cultural audiences and students of all backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center's principal program is Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center school (cmdc school). Cmdc school is a dance center that provides high quality dance instruction in a variety of dance techniques including ballet, jazz, tap, and salsa. The age of dance students ranges from three to approximately fifty, while the overwhelming majority of the students are under eighteen years of age. The majority of students come from working lower and middle class families. Fee adjustments and scholarships are available upon request, but subject to cmdc school having adequate funds. This is an attempt to ensure that lack of income is not a barrier to participation for children and families. Cmdc school is open to all students of all backgrounds inclusive of students with physical or mental disabilities.in recent years, cmdc has expanded to include a professional performance company that has held dance concerts throughout the united states.
$475,773 spent$511,183 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn recent years, cmdc has expanded to include a professional performance company that has held dance concerts throughout the united states.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $475,773.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $43k to $119k (+176%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 20% · 2022 35% · 2023 6% · 2024 27% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Robin Edwards
Member, exec. Dir.
Board chair
Ronald Childs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $29k → $65k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER’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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
51% of CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER: 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 MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER?
- CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,129 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $264,129 in grants to CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE CENTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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