Illinois · Nonprofit
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,021,256 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($4,740,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Grant Park Orchestral Association does
Mission
(see schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the grant park music festival celebrated a major milestone in our nearly century-long history with the arrival of six-time grammy award-winning conductor giancarlo guerrero as our new artistic director and principal conductor. Giancarlo's inaugural season (june 11-august 16, 2025) drew 203,000 chicago residents and summer visitors to millennium park for the festival's free symphonic and choral performances. Notably, average attendance for our core classical concerts topped 7,500-a 3% increase over the prior year. From its inception, the festival has brought people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives together through the power of great music. Approximately 41% of our concert attendees (continued on schedule o) are under age 45; 22% identify as black, asian, or latino/a; and 12% report household incomes of $50,000 or below. We also continue to proudly invest in diverse representation, reflecting and celebrating the rich variety of our community. In 2025, 85% of our concerts featured works composed by a woman and/or person of color, and 80% showcased a woman guest artist and/or guest artist of color.festival goers enjoyed an eclectic array of outstanding music…
$5,232,811 spent95% of program spendingThe festival proudly nurtures the next generation of classical music talent, providing vital career development for emerging artists from historically under-represented backgrounds, and supporting community efforts that expand access to quality music education for chicago's young people. The festival's string and vocal fellowship program welcomed our 11th cohort in 2025. Fellows rehearsed and performed with festival ensembles, took part in master classes with visiting guest artists, developed and delivered free chamber concerts in neighborhood parks, and appeared in chicago's venerable dame myra hess and rush hour concert series. Through our visiting masters series, festival fellows and young artists from chicago music programs - enjoyed (continued on schedule o) opportunities to receive guidance and feedback from the season's renowned international soloists. This year featured master classes by stacy garrop (composition), imani winds (chamber music), inbal segev (cello), stephen osborne (piano), troy cook (vocal performance), and augustin hadelich (violin). All sessions were free and open to the public. We also strengthened our partnerships with community-based music education…
$277,894 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,510,705.
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 2023 to 2024, from $23M to $31M (+33%).
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: 2017 51% · 2018 40% · 2019 44% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 27% · 2024 24% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Paul Winberg
President & CEO
Board chair
Adam Grais
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $389k → $2.0M.
16 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 72% · 2019 33% · 2020 61% · 2021 21% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $420k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$420k
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 GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION?
- GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,021,256 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($4,740,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $14,021,256 in grants to GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 111 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