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CIVITAS ENSEMBLE

CIVITAS ENSEMBLE (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,191 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($61,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$217k
Net assets
$269k
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Civitas Ensemble does

Mission

Civitas is a chamber music ensemble with a threefold mission: to present engaging live performances of new and traditional works; to inspire a young generation of classical musicians; and to bring the healing power of music to those with limited access to live performances.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Self-presented classical chamber music programs are established to develop and strengthen the chamber music community, provide educational programs to young audiences, and bring music to those who would have limited access to the healing power of live classical music.

    $57,240 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Educational residency programs at valparaiso university present high quality classical music performances to students and give students the unique opportunity to learn, practice, participate in, and ulitimately enjoy classical chamber music, and encouraging atmospheres.

  3. An international musical collaboration between civitas and czech musicians, pavel sporcl and the gipsy way ensemble, which , among other things, presented concerts in prague ( czech republic )and chicago.

  4. For hire - ensemble members made available for hire to perform concerts, masterclasses, or other related activities. Programs at lurie children's hospital and other places of healing introduce live music performances as a positive influence in alternative setting for children and adults with limited access to live music and offer multiple benefits, such as stress relief and anxiety relief.

    $256 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,496.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($136k)2018 Revenue 54 ($87k) Expenses 39 ($71k) Net assets 112 ($152k)2019 Revenue 35 ($57k) Expenses 38 ($69k) Net assets 103 ($140k)2020 Revenue 44 ($70k) Expenses 16 ($29k) Net assets 133 ($181k)2021 Revenue 41 ($65k) Expenses 22 ($39k) Net assets 152 ($207k)2022 Revenue 34 ($54k) Expenses 20 ($37k) Net assets 165 ($224k)2023 Revenue 38 ($62k) Expenses 29 ($53k) Net assets 171 ($233k)2024 Revenue 40 ($64k) Expenses 30 ($53k) Net assets 179 ($243k)2025 Revenue 52 ($83k) Expenses 32 ($57k) Net assets 198 ($269k)
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Revenue (52)Expenses (32)Net assets (198)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $140k to $181k (+29%).

$136k
$152k
$140k
$181k
$207k
$224k
$233k
$243k
$269k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of CIVITAS ENSEMBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
$16k
’18
−$12k
’19
$41k
’20
$26k
’21
$17k
’22
$9k
’23
$10k
’24
$26k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Lutgart Calcote

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $34k → $20k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CIVITAS ENSEMBLE’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

CIVITAS ENSEMBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

36% 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 CIVITAS ENSEMBLE.

28%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 55% · 2019 56% · 2020 50% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 50% — 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.

How long its funders stay

71% of CIVITAS ENSEMBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CIVITAS ENSEMBLE draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
DE
NM
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CIVITAS ENSEMBLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CIVITAS ENSEMBLE

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CIVITAS ENSEMBLE?
CIVITAS ENSEMBLE (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,191 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($61,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIVITAS ENSEMBLE have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $217,191 in grants to CIVITAS ENSEMBLE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIVITAS ENSEMBLE?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIVITAS ENSEMBLE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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