Illinois · Nonprofit
Idea Box Integrated Arts
Idea Box Integrated Arts (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($27). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $27
- Net assets
- $351
What Idea Box Integrated Arts does
Mission
Elementary School Performing Arts Residency: Provide a team of 5 artists-in-residence who work together to provide instruction in movement, voice, craft, and music, culminating in a single performance product. The residency serves 360 students in Grades K-5, with a single student participating in 180 hours of performing arts classes over the 6-year residency period. *note-- programming with this partner began prior to our transition to a 401c3. The 9-year duration of this ongoing residency exceeds the number of years Idea Box has been a non-profit organization. Elementary School: A team of 3 artists-in-residence delivered a 6-week intensive residency for 270 students in grades K through 8, including 2 classrooms of special needs students with severe physical and/or cognitive disabilities. Idea Box worked with the school to custom build a sensory arts curriculum for early elementary and adaptive classrooms, as well as delivering previously developed curricula in fashion design, puppetry
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Idea Box was created to support the development of community through art-making, the use of student-driven collaborative development processes, the integration of visual and performance elements in art-making, and the understanding of academic concepts through artistic exploration.
$64,206 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,206.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $7k to $2k (−77%).
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.
0% of Idea Box Integrated Arts’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. 1 of the last 2 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.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Idea Box Integrated Arts’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
100% of Idea Box Integrated Arts's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 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
Idea Box Integrated Arts's revenue fell 84% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Idea Box Integrated Arts
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 Idea Box Integrated Arts: 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 Idea Box Integrated Arts?
- Idea Box Integrated Arts (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($27). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Idea Box Integrated Arts have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27 in grants to Idea Box Integrated Arts.
- Who is the largest funder of Idea Box Integrated Arts?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Idea Box Integrated Arts 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 2024–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing