Illinois · Nonprofit
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,794,053 to it, the largest being NANCY A LAUTER & ALFRED L MCDOUGAL CHARITABLE ($1,461,429). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Hubbard Street Dance Chicago does
Mission
The core purpose of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is to bring artists, art and audiences together to enrich, engage, and change lives through the experience of dance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dance performancein hubbard street's season 47, linda-denise fisher-harrell built upon lou conte's legacy of artistic excellence, risk-taking, and community to bring the company's signature strength and precision to audiences around the country. Chicago saw three series-fall series at the steppenwolf theatre, winter series at the harris theater, and spring series at the harris theater-which included two world premieres and two company premieres, all from leading choreographers including resident artist aszure barton and bob fosse and gwen verdon. An exciting touring season spanned across the country, including stops in los angeles, ca, vail, co, as well as a one-week run at the joyce theater, an international leader in dance presentation in new york city.
$3,045,401 spent$716,065 earned by the program75% of program spendingTraining, education and communityhsdc's education programs build sustainable partnerships with cps that include in-school residencies, teacher professional development, teaching artist training, and performance opportunities. In the 2024-25 school year, teaching artists led dance education in over 90 classrooms across 50 schools. Hubbard street also welcomed students to three free student matinee performances-an in-person performance on november 22, 2024, at the steppenwolf theater for over 400 high school students, hubbard street's first dual-language matinee on february 14,2025, for over 1,200 students at the harris theater for music and dance, and virtual matinee called hubbard live! Offered in the spring. Our adaptive dance programs serve participants with different abilities through our responsive pedagogy. In diverse learning classrooms, teaching artists guide students through dance technique and the choreographic process using dance-specific visual supports and developmentally appropriate methods. Hsdc's movement for wellness: parkinson's project helps participants and caregivers build dexterity, community, and confidence in four separate session periods throughout the…
$1,001,907 spentof which $76,350 as grants$1,253,161 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,047,308.
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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $13M (+18%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 38% · 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
David Mcdermott
Executive director
Board chair
Steven Collens
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $456k → $1.7M.
10 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 16% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 41% — 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
55% of HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
81% of HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO?
- HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,794,053 to it, the largest being NANCY A LAUTER & ALFRED L MCDOUGAL CHARITABLE ($1,461,429). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $7,794,053 in grants to HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO?
- NANCY A LAUTER & ALFRED L MCDOUGAL CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $1,461,429 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60 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