Illinois · Nonprofit
IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP
IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,632 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,264). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Journalism Project Incshared funders
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio match
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $126.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP’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
IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
66% of IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- American Journalism Project Incshared fundersDC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-M Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP?
- IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,632 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,264). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,632 in grants to IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,264 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IDLE MUSE THEATRE NFP 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing