Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE
ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,222,433 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($964,850). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Illinois Arts Alliance does
Mission
Arts alliance illinois builds the creative sector's power through advocacy and connection to resources to improve the quality of life in communities statewide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal sponsorship: assisting startup initiatives looking to strengthen the creative sector of illinois as they establish their own tax exemption.
$713,890 spentof which $346,635 as grants$49,642 earned by the program38% of program spendingPublic funding navigation: in 2023 arts alliance illinois launched our public funding navigator program to help the arts and culture sector learn about and access public funding opportunities, and to position ourselves as an advocate to help them overcome barriers within these government programs.the program includes researching and identifying additional funding opportunities that can be leveraged for creatives and cultural organizations/businesses, as well as connecting the creative sector with affordable financial literacy and business development resources.
$470,064 spent25% of program spendingCivic engagement: the alliance keeps its stakeholders up to date on news and policy that affect the creative sector through public forums, action alerts, advocacy trainings, workshops, voter education, meetings with elected officials, webinars, and other engagement events. By empowering our stakeholders to be active participants in the policy-making process, we equip the sector with the tools to grow our impact across illinois. Capitol day: every spring, arts and culture advocates from across illinois come together to champion key issues that impact the larger creative community in illinois while advancing the specific needs of their communities.
$366,176 spent19% of program spendingArts education & cultural equity: activities related to the expansion of student access to daily arts instruction throughout illinois, and to build the capacity of creative workers of color and raising awareness of historically neglected forms of artistic expression.
$338,680 spent18% of program spendingResearch: research around policies and programs that increase stability for creative workers.
$0 spent$7,300 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,888,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $3.6M (+156%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 7% · 2021 43% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% · 2024 58% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Claire Rice
Executive director
Board chair
O Victoria Lakes-Battle
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $242k → $1.6M.
7 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 52% · 2020 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 18% · 2023 50% — 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
40% of ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
69% of ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: 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 ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE?
- ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,222,433 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($964,850). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $6,222,433 in grants to ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $964,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 65 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