California · Nonprofit
Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters
Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800 to it, the largest being HHL Foundation ($800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $800
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to grassroots marketing and advertising for the Chicago theater community. The goals are: 1) To educate the public about the depth and breadth of live theater options in the Chicago area and to build audiences across the entire sprectrum of productions. 2) To raise the profile of the Chicago theater community, to strengthen its role in the cultural life of the city, and to enhance its prominence on the national theatre scene. 3) To celebrate the work of Chicago artists and theaters.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation wound down its activities and made final donations/grants.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $679 to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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 Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters’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
Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters: 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 Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters?
- Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800 to it, the largest being HHL Foundation ($800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $800 in grants to Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters?
- HHL Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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