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Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,298 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($410,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $882k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra does
Mission
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Concerts - The Organization traditionally performs six Saturday matinee and eveningclassical concerts and a Holiday Pops matinee concert in December, along with two youth education concerts in May for approximately 2,000 Southland students. Over the summer months, the Organization also presents a series of small-ensemble outdoor chamber concerts, for both ticketed patrons and free community audiences.
$693,896 spent$268,276 earned by the program86% of program spendingEducation and Engagement - The Organization maintains a strong commitment to education. Through a wide variety of engaging programs designed to meet the needs of students, teachers, and community members of all ages, the Organization strives to build a stronger community and impart its passion of music an the arts to others. During the 2025/26 season, IPO again expanded its educational programming through the Marilynn Tannebaum Youth Music Education Institute, which was established in 2021/22 to develop excitement for orchestral music through engagement between the youth of our communities and the vibrant, creative musicians of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra.
$115,694 spent$75,162 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $809,590.
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 $3.4M to $4.7M (+40%).
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 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 12% · 2022 9% · 2023 3% · 2024 6% · 2025 5% · 2026 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $93k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Philharmonic Orchestra’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
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 58% · 2022 44% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 Philharmonic Orchestra'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 $273k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $610k 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.
Against its field
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 36 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 Philharmonic Orchestra
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 Philharmonic Orchestra: 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 Philharmonic Orchestra?
- Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,298 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($410,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $882,298 in grants to Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $410,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 15 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