Illinois · Nonprofit
KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER
KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,285 to it, the largest being SAG-AFTRA PRODUCERS INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT AND COOPERATIVE FUND ($599,412). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $638k
- Net assets
- $560k
What Kaufherr Resource Center does
Mission
Supports professional performers and broadcasters by providing tools to advance their crafts, market their talent, hone their skills and expand their opportunities to earn a living in their profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
KRC Program Descriptions 2024-2025Studio JamsVolunteer artist-led sessions hosted every other week, providing a workgroup to prepare for auditions by practicing voiceover or on-camera copy, share feedback, and work on industry-relevant material. The volunteer moderators are all union members with extensive professional experience and many are educators affiliated with area universities and acting schools. Recent moderators include Charin Alvarez, a veteran performer and ensemble member with Teatro Vista Theater; Neal Dandade, on-camera actor and educator with Second City Chicago; Adenike Thomas, NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate, performer and filmmaker; Khloe Janel, Chicago-area poet and performer who makes art for "personal, professional, and generational liberation and Courtney Rioux, professional voice over artist and actor on 8 seasons of Chicago Med.ConservatoriesMonthly professional development workshops cover an array of industry topics including: -From Actor to Producer: Making Your Own Content and Developing Another Industry Skill Set with Chicago based film makers Tiffany Bedwell, McKenzie Chinn, Coby Goss, Erik Juarez and Lisa Roti-Agent Speed Dating with talent…
$94,238 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $94,238.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $511k to $554k (+8%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $101k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER’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
KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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
KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER
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
11%
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 KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER: 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 KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER?
- KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,285 to it, the largest being SAG-AFTRA PRODUCERS INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT AND COOPERATIVE FUND ($599,412). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $638,285 in grants to KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER?
- SAG-AFTRA PRODUCERS INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT AND COOPERATIVE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $599,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAUFHERR RESOURCE CENTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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