Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Tap Theatre NFP
Chicago Tap Theatre NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,145 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($99,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $445k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Chicago Tap Theatre NFP does
Mission
To share the creativity, history, and joy of tap dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chicago Tap Theatres largest program service is the production and presentation of tap dance performances. The performances present tap dance artists, choreographers, and musicians. CTT produced live performances in Chicago on February 8-March 2, 2025, and June 5-8, 2025.
$131,644 spentof which $107,273 as grants$24,371 earned by the program37% of program spendingChicago Tap Theatre brings its performances to Chicago and states throughout the US when contracted by presenters and festival organizers. In FY 25, CTT performed in Lakewood, Co, Colorado Springs, CO, Lander, WY, Pinedale, WY, Lebanon, IL, Hamilton, MT, and Des Moines, IA.
$109,488 spent$101,916 earned by the program31% of program spendingChicago Tap Theatre has educational programming that brings tap dance to students of all ages. CTTs intensives are multi0day events and include guest teachers. CTT held its intensive in Chicag on July 7-11, 2025. CTT also brings programming to Chicago Public Schools.
$63,943 spentof which $18,426 as grants$45,517 earned by the program18% of program spendingChicago Tap Theatre collaborates with a tap dance organization, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, as well as the wider Chicago tap dance community. Collectively known as the Chicago Tap Allstars, the mission of CTA is to audaciously amplify the excellence of Chicago tap dance by creating an equitable, healing, and inclusive community through education, performances, and advocacy. Events were held December 14 and May 23-25.
$52,233 spentof which $37,700 as grants$14,418 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $357,308.
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 2024 to 2025, from $260k to $143k (−45%).
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 3% · 2019 6% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% · 2024 30% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Chicago Tap Theatre NFP’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $29k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Tap Theatre 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 Tap Theatre NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 Tap Theatre NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 82% · 2021 62% · 2022 99% · 2023 35% — 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
60% of Chicago Tap Theatre NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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 Tap Theatre NFP has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chicago Tap Theatre NFP
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Tap Theatre 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Chicago Tap Theatre NFP?
- Chicago Tap Theatre NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,145 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($99,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chicago Tap Theatre NFP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $251,145 in grants to Chicago Tap Theatre NFP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Tap Theatre NFP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $99,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Tap Theatre 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.
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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 7 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