Illinois · Nonprofit
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,198,634 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($430,135). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art does
Mission
Intuit champions the diverse voices of self-taught art, welcoming both new and familiar audiences. Intuit is a premier museum of self-taught artalso known as outsider art. These artists typically work outside the mainstream and may have faced societal, economic or geographic barriers to a traditional path of art making. The museums mission is grounded in the ethos that art can be found anywhere and made by anyone. The instinct to create is universal and the arts must embrace, represent and be accessible to all. Chicago is recognized as one of the first places in the nation to embrace self-taught art as a legitimate genre, ultimately leading to Intuit being formed in 1991 by a group of artists, collectors, art dealers and art enthusiasts devoted to outsider art. Today, Intuit is renovating and expanding its facility into a modern, welcoming museumscheduled to reopen in 2025in service of its vision to be the leading museum advocate for self-taught art. The renovation will: triple exhibit
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Capital Campaign - A fundraising campaign intended to renovate the entire museum - basement through second floor - to make it fully accessible and upgrade its aging systems to better care for the art and improve the guest experience. Once completed, Intuit will triple its exhibitions space and add a permanent education center, a welcoming faade, curatorial planning and staging space, improved office spaces, accessible restrooms and elevator, and access to its Darger Archives and Robert A. Roth Study Center.
$645,855 spent38% of program spendingExhibitions - Intuit produces 3-6 special exhibitions each year and maintains a permanent collection of 1,400 artworks and the Henry Darger Room Collection and archives.
$450,438 spent$22,642 earned by the program27% of program spendingEducation - Programs are built around each year's exhibitions, typically 3-5 significant exhibits featuring work by outsider and self-taught artists. Intuit's key public programs include: A) Teacher Fellowship Program: 20-24 Chicago Public School teachers attend professional development sessions at Intuit and create interdisciplinary curricula meeting common core standards. The program culminates in a month-long student exhibition at the museum at the end of the school year. B) IntuiTeens Youth Program: 12 teens participate in a summer internship program in which they develop and teach peer-to-peer art workshops at teen and public-facing spaces such as Blind Services Association. The program is intended to sustain long-term arts and civic engagement of teenagers, particularly those in under-served communities. C) Public Art-Making Workshops: Intuit offers a creative space for individuals to transform personal found materials into works of art and express themselves. D) Art After Work: A monthly, Thursday evening do-it-yourself workshop series, targeted at Millennials, which typically attracts 30-50 guests from diverse backgrounds. E) Events: Intuit hosts multi-sensory,…
$169,081 spent$5,855 earned by the program10% of program spendingPermanent Collections - Comprises of approximately more than 1,400 collections that are included in the Organization's exhibitions.
$143,032 spent8% of program spendingMuseum Store - Features unique items, including publications related to outsider and selftaught art and artists and merchandise highlighting the Organization's permanent collection. The store is open during regular business hours and online.
$134,948 spent8% of program spendingMarketing - Highlights exhibitions and programming at the museum. This includes press releases, paid advertising, emails to museum members and mailing list, and a social media presence, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
$95,829 spent6% of program spendingMemberships - The Organization's members receive access that allows them to experience the Organization's programs like no other visitor, including free admission, discounts in the Vision Store and exclusive member events.
$53,624 spent$33,716 earned by the program3% of program spendingRobert A. Roth Study Center - Provides a non-circulating collection with a primary focus in the fields of outsider and contemporary self-taught art. The Organization's holdings contain an extensive and growing library of books, catalogs, periodicals, slides, photographs, videotapes, and archive materials. As a public resource that complements the Organization's educational mission, the Organization's study center is open to students and scholars interested in pursuing further research into intuitive, self-taught, and outsider art and artists.
$3,535 spent0% of program spendingOutsider Magazine - With both physical and online distribution across the country and beyond, includes artist and exhibit features written by outsider art scholars.
$1,789 spent0% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,698,131.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.0M to $10M (+158%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 3% · 2024 72% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Debra Kerr
President & CEO
Board chair
Scott Lang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $76k → $290k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 55% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 17% — 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
64% of IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
86% of IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $882k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art?
- IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,198,634 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($430,135). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,198,634 in grants to IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $430,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 32 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