Illinois · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO
INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,280,200 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($710,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $315k
What International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago does
Mission
Develop, promote and increase awareness of latino cultures among latino communities through film and video events, education and other art forms
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The chicago latino film festival is a u.s. Film festival, focusing on latin america and latinos. The festival features the work of promising latin american filmmakers with a special emphasis on films that showcase the enormous diversity of latin america, and that defy commonly held stereotypes about hispanics and latinos.
$717,781 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $717,781.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $477k to $1.1M (+136%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Jose A Vargas
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy Alonso
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $64k → $502k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO’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
INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 58% · 2019 67% · 2020 26% · 2021 76% · 2022 30% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
88% of INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF 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. $725k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF 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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO: 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 INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO?
- INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,280,200 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($710,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,280,200 in grants to INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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