Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC
CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,135 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $0
What Chicago Youth Shakespeare Inc does
Mission
Performing Arts (Theatre) / Arts Education
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Following the Board of Directors decision in November of 2022 to cease operations and prepare for the organization's closure by spring of 2023, Chicago Youth Shakespeare halted all fundraising and prepared to hold one last public performance: A staged reading of Shakespeare's As You Like It featuring alumni actors from every past CYS production. The event was free and open to the public, and was hosted by the Epiphany Center for the Arts.
$4,757 spent66% of program spendingIn January of 2023, CYS's artistic director provided cost-free coaching sessions for high school seniors preparing for undergraduate conservatory auditions.
$1,500 spent21% of program spendingIn February of 2023, CYS released its film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring the 2021-22 professional CYS Ensemble. The film was shot during the previous season, but the release was delayed due to Covid. The film was released to the public on the organization's YouTube channel, and no admission was charged for viewing. Subtitles were included to ensure accessibility for the hearing impaired. To accompany the film, CYS also distributed a free, 50+ page learning resources guide for Macbeth to the hundreds of public school teachers on its mailing list.
$1,000 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,257.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $12k to $578 (−95%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Manon Spadaro
Artistic/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $8.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC’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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 89% · 2021 47% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
70% of CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Government funding CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC
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.
Public support
74%
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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC: 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 YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC?
- CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,135 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $8,135 in grants to CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO YOUTH SHAKESPEARE INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 5 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