Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Esprit Des Concerts
Esprit Des Concerts (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($69,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Esprit Des Concerts does
Mission
The presentation and performance of the arts and classical music.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
This program is our Saturday Salons series in the West Loop of Chicago. This series produces a 9-month season of monthly chamber music concerts at an art and antiquities gallery, Primitive gallery. This program requires the hiring of musicians, marketing and administrative tasks. The program benefits more that 1,500 people.
$54,500 spent45% of program spendingThis program service is Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival; a two week chamber music festival in Potosi, Wisconsin. This Festival provides classical music concerts to a rural population and a tristate population of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. This program requires construction, marketing and facility maintenance. The program benefits over 1,000 people a year.
$57,820 spent48% of program spendingThis program is an arts education program for underserved students of Chicagos southside neighborhoods. The program pays for instrument rental for students, teacher fees and other educational materials. The program benefits 60 people a year.
$8,797 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,117.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Julian Graef
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 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 Esprit Des Concerts’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
Esprit Des Concerts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
Esprit Des Concerts draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
Esprit Des Concerts runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding Esprit Des Concerts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Esprit Des Concerts
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
55%
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 Esprit Des Concerts: 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 Esprit Des Concerts?
- Esprit Des Concerts (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($69,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Esprit Des Concerts have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $98,000 in grants to Esprit Des Concerts, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Esprit Des Concerts?
- WAYFARER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Esprit Des Concerts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 4 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