Illinois · Nonprofit
FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS
FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,762 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $827k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Fair Lady Productions does
Mission
To provide an artistic home and performance venue where community participants may benefit from exposure to quality theater and arts experiences in an enriching, educational, and entertaining environment.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Kidz kabaret educates children of all ages in a no audition and non-competitive environment, teaching them to explore and expand their creative talents. Our classes and programs nurture their self-confidence and self-esteem, and provide them with lifelong skills in personal growth and presentation. Unlike other theater organizations, every student is welcome regardless of expertise, abilities or special needs and guaranteed a principal part. The program has blossomed into a vibrant, comprehensive theater program that held over 150 performances during the year, with more than 1,500 children participating and over 14,000 community members attending our shows.
$493,305 spent$603,980 earned by the program80% of program spendingCenter stage theater is a performing arts and meeting venue which provides a home to kidz kabaret, as well as affordable rental space for the community.
$126,085 spent$49,466 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $619,390.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.5M to $3.2M (+113%).
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: 2024 4% · 2025 13% · 2026 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Kandiss Hernandez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $20k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS’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
FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS: 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 FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS?
- FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,762 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $28,762 in grants to FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS?
- NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIR LADY PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing