Illinois · Nonprofit
FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM
FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $713 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $713
- Net assets
- $35k
What Footprints Tap Ensemble of Talent Forum does
Mission
Teach youth tap dance and performance
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION - 15-20 person youth ensemble plus 5-10 aspiring members at workshops as well as community workshop events presented by the organization 20 hours; 4 hours per each for rehearsing; 2 hours per week for technique instruction; master classes with visiting choreographers.
$4,760 spent19% of program spendingATTEND WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS - 15-20 person youth ensemble attending tap dance festival 1.5 hour workshops; 5 hour courses 40 hour intensives and 40 hour youth tap ensemble conferences; Seminars include attendance at concerts. Includes learning masters choreography at seminars festivals.
$2,728 spent11% of program spendingYOUTH ENSEMBLE PRODUCED TAP DANCE PRODUCTION - 15-20 person youth ensemble members produce annual concert; Includes 3 months of intensive rehearsals costume and music selection lighting and tech issues program and venue selection and raising funds.600 in attendance includes choreographers.
$17,827 spent70% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,315.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12k to $42k (+238%).
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.
11% of FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $600 → $27.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM’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
FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM
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.
Public support
100%
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 FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM: 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 FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM?
- FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $713 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $713 in grants to FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM?
- AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOTPRINTS TAP ENSEMBLE OF TALENT FORUM 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 2 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