Illinois · Nonprofit
COMFORT STATION NFP
COMFORT STATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,088 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($88,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $231k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Comfort Station Nfp does
Mission
Comfort Station is a nonprofit arts organization based in Chicagos Logan Square neighborhood that supports emerging and experimental artists through free public programming The organization operates as a community-centered cultural space presenting exhibitions performances screenings and artist-led events that provide opportunities for artists to develop and share new work Comfort Station prioritizes accessibility offering programs at no cost and creating an inclusive platform for diverse voices Through its artist-run and community-driven model the organization fosters creative experimentation cultural exchange and public engagement with the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Exhibitions- We stage monthly solo and group exhibitions by Chicago-based emerging and mid-career artists who apply via a free open call Programmers support and curate this program through professional development opportunities
$9,701 spent34% of program spendingMusic- We stage free weekly performances by experimental and independent musicians mostly based in Chicago Programmers support and curate this program through professional development opportunities
$13,730 spent48% of program spendingFilm- We screen free weekly indpendent films and provide curatorial opportunities for international film festivals and Chicago-based film programmers
$4,948 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,379.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $40k to $58k (+46%).
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.
100% of COMFORT STATION NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jordan Martins
Executive Director
Board chair
Mariela Acua
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $33k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 COMFORT STATION 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
COMFORT STATION NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 COMFORT STATION NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 51% · 2023 88% — 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
100% of COMFORT STATION 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. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMFORT STATION 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
Government funding COMFORT STATION NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 COMFORT STATION 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.
Public support
69%
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 COMFORT STATION 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 COMFORT STATION NFP?
- COMFORT STATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,088 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($88,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMFORT STATION NFP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $231,088 in grants to COMFORT STATION NFP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMFORT STATION NFP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $88,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMFORT STATION 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 2019–2025), 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