Illinois · Nonprofit
Curious Theatre Branch
Curious Theatre Branch (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($35,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Curious Theatre Branch does
Mission
Providing the public with quality theater
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
There were sponsored events and production shows that benefitedthousands of citizens in the Chicago area. They were able toparticipate in the arts at the lowest possible cost to the public.
$46,500 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,500.
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 $30k to $13k (−57%).
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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of Curious Theatre Branch’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
Curious Theatre Branch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% — 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
84% of Curious Theatre Branch'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 Curious Theatre Branch
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Curious Theatre Branch: 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 Curious Theatre Branch?
- Curious Theatre Branch (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($35,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Curious Theatre Branch have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $61,500 in grants to Curious Theatre Branch, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Curious Theatre Branch?
- GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Curious Theatre Branch 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 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