Illinois · Nonprofit
CYT Chicago Inc
CYT Chicago Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,469 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,442). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What CYT Chicago Inc does
Mission
CYT is dedicated to developing character in children and adults through training in the arts and by producing whole family entertainment, all of which reflect Judeo-Christian values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization gives public musical theater performances propagating Judeo-Christian values and providing for wholesome, family entertainment for the community. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025 the organization produced 15 different shows and 36,906 tickets were sold for the shows.
$745,286 spent$841,625 earned by the program54% of program spendingThe organization provides instruction in the theater arts to children ages 5-18 while promoting the Judeo-Christian values of commitment, discipline, integrity and self esteem. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, the organization offered 190 classes in 8 different areas in the Chicago metropolitan and southeastern Wisconsin area. The total enrollment in these classes was 1,933 students.
$358,841 spent$405,227 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe organization participates in community events and outreaches to promote Judeo-Christian values through showcases that are presented after practicing them during one-week summer camp workshops. During the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, the organization offered 18 different week-long summer day and overnight camps for children aged 5 through 18. The attendance at these camps was 702 students.
$276,032 spent$311,712 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,380,159.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $3.0M (+47%).
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: 2021 68% · 2022 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CYT Chicago Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $350 → $741.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 CYT Chicago Inc’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
CYT Chicago Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 CYT Chicago Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 53% · 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of CYT Chicago Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of CYT Chicago Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
CYT Chicago Inc's revenue fell 34% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CYT Chicago Inc
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CYT Chicago Inc: 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 CYT Chicago Inc?
- CYT Chicago Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,469 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,442). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CYT Chicago Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $16,469 in grants to CYT Chicago Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CYT Chicago Inc?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CYT Chicago Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing