Illinois · Nonprofit
Despertar Latino
Despertar Latino (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Despertar Latino runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared funders
- National Association of Latino Arts and Cultureportfolio match
- Vision y Compromisoportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Despertar Latino’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Despertar Latino's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- National Association of Latino Arts and Cultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vision y Compromisoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for California Traditional Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esperanza Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Naleo Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Latino Legislative Caucus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Latino Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern California Grantmakersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanics in Philanthropyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorialportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Despertar Latino
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Despertar Latino: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Despertar Latino?
- Despertar Latino (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Despertar Latino have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,000 in grants to Despertar Latino, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Despertar Latino?
- Crossroads Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Despertar Latino 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing