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DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS

DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,367 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$53k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$86k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Downers Grove North Friends of Fine Arts does

Mission

Support the fine arts program at downers grove north high school

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Support the fine arts program at downers grove north high school

    $36,178 spentof which $18,469 as grants
    84% of program spending
  2. Support the fine arts program at downers grove north high school

    $7,124 spentof which $2,601 as grants
    16% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,302.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2020 Revenue 93 ($38k) Expenses 77 ($25k) Net assets 151 ($39k)2021 Revenue 54 ($22k) Expenses 89 ($29k) Net assets 125 ($32k)2022 Revenue 175 ($72k) Expenses 94 ($31k) Net assets 286 ($74k)2023 Revenue 119 ($49k) Expenses 129 ($42k) Net assets 311 ($80k)2024 Revenue 126 ($52k) Expenses 141 ($46k) Net assets 334 ($86k)2025 Revenue 128 ($53k) Expenses 162 ($53k) Net assets 333 ($86k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (128)Expenses (162)Net assets (333)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $38k to $75k (+95%).

$37k
$51k
$38k
$75k
$82k
$88k
$88k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’19
$13k
’20
−$7k
’21
$41k
’22
$7k
’23
$6k
’24
−$266
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $217 → $204.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS’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

DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS.

88%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 69% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

92% of DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS'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 $900 that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS

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05Profile & governance

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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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS?
DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,367 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $11,367 in grants to DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNERS GROVE NORTH FRIENDS OF FINE ARTS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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