Illinois · Nonprofit
COPERNICUS FOUNDATION
COPERNICUS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,515 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Copernicus Foundation does
Mission
The Copernicus Foundation was charted to serve the metropolitan chicago area as a major civic, cultural, educational, recreational and entertainment resource
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides arts and programming such as foreign and english language classes, community information, seminars and vintage movies and provides a civic center for ethnic and american exhibitions and activities.
$1,538,566 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,538,566.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.2M to $5.3M (+28%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Hubert Cioromski
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $75k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COPERNICUS FOUNDATION’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
COPERNICUS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 COPERNICUS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 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
COPERNICUS FOUNDATION draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 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.
Organizations like COPERNICUS FOUNDATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 COPERNICUS FOUNDATION: 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 COPERNICUS FOUNDATION?
- COPERNICUS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,515 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPERNICUS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $80,515 in grants to COPERNICUS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPERNICUS FOUNDATION?
- NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPERNICUS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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