Illinois · Nonprofit
COMPANY OF FOLK
COMPANY OF FOLK (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being DOLORES KOHL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Company of Folk does
Mission
Preserve and promote folk music and folk arts of the Midwest
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
IL Arts Council Agency - grant to Company of Folk for $20K to assist agency with grant workshops, technical assistance, consulting, and the Master Apprentice Fellowship program in Illinois. Benefits 500 people throughout Illinois.
$18,971 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5k to $1k (−77%).
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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Gardner
Executive Director
Board chair
Bucky Halker
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of COMPANY OF FOLK’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
COMPANY OF FOLK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of COMPANY OF FOLK's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like COMPANY OF FOLK
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
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 COMPANY OF FOLK: 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 COMPANY OF FOLK?
- COMPANY OF FOLK (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being DOLORES KOHL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPANY OF FOLK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,000 in grants to COMPANY OF FOLK.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPANY OF FOLK?
- DOLORES KOHL EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPANY OF FOLK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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