Illinois · Nonprofit
D-COMPOSED GIVES
D-COMPOSED GIVES (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,550 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $493k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $430k
What D-Composed Gives does
Mission
D-Composed Gives is organized to provide education and to promote the development, establishment, and expansion of chamber music and black composers. Specifically, the mission of D-Composed Gives is to uplift and empower society by providing a platform for the music of black composers. In order to do this, we aim to increase access and exposure to black creativity, culture and life through thoughtful programming, events and content.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music of black composers - our signature performance series designed to give audiences of all ages an introduction to black composers across time periods and genres in an effort to reverse the severe underrepresentation of black recognition in classical music and the arts.
$57,997 spent$79,771 earned by the program42% of program spendingD-compressed - a wellness focused music & meditation experience at kenwood community gardens that focused on promoting inclusion and serving the needs of the community. The event highlights the music of black women composers, meditations, sound bowls, and storytelling on healing led by a black women practitioners.
$35,830 spent$2,433 earned by the program26% of program spendingSpecial projects/workshops -1) cso: civic fellows - a workshop hosted by the chicago symphony orchestra with d-composed serving as artistic advisors in the development of culturally relevant programming. 2) tucca brazil - our first international appearance, we performance and facilitated a workshop in sao paolo, brazil in collaboration with tucca and afro-latino composers celebrating the diverse contributions of the black experience in south american classical music.
$18,225 spent$14,025 earned by the program13% of program spendingAll other - musical storytime - a collaboration with chicago public schools, chicago public libraries and other youth education organizations hosting book readings of black authors accompanied by specially curated/commissioned music of black composers.family edition - a family friendly event at the south side community arts center that introduces the work of black composers to children and their families through modern and contemporary arrangements.music inclusion hub - a digital hub of culturally responsive, intersectional, mixed media resources for primary and secondary school educators to incorporate into their curriculums.
$24,918 spent$2,300 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $136,970.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $145k to $437k (+201%).
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: 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of D-COMPOSED GIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Kori Coleman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $17k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 D-COMPOSED GIVES’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
D-COMPOSED GIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 D-COMPOSED GIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 41% — 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
95% of D-COMPOSED GIVES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
D-COMPOSED GIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like D-COMPOSED GIVES
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 D-COMPOSED GIVES: 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 D-COMPOSED GIVES?
- D-COMPOSED GIVES (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,550 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does D-COMPOSED GIVES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $218,550 in grants to D-COMPOSED GIVES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of D-COMPOSED GIVES?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like D-COMPOSED GIVES 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing