Illinois · Nonprofit
Kindred Civic Arts Forum
Kindred Civic Arts Forum (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,877 to it, the largest being Polk Bros Foundation Inc ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $429k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $705k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Kindred Civic Arts Forum does
Mission
The organization mission is to provide a home for artistic creative expression and civic engagement that animates and engages the human spirit in ways that prioritize the Black experience in the Austin community in Chicago.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A vibrant fine and performing arts center in the Chicago Austin neighborhood, the KCA hosted many school graduations, musical theater productions, orchestra and choral programs, as well as contributed to the communitys cultural landscape.
$457,107 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $457,107.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $339k to $131k (−61%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 29% · 2024 14% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of Kindred Civic Arts Forum’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. 3 of the last 4 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
Reesheda Berry
Executive Director
Board chair
Yuan-Ying Hsu
Interim Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $250k → $165k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Kindred Civic Arts Forum’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
Kindred Civic Arts Forum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Kindred Civic Arts Forum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of Kindred Civic Arts Forum's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Kindred Civic Arts Forum receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $705k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Kindred Civic Arts Forum
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Kindred Civic Arts Forum: 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 Kindred Civic Arts Forum?
- Kindred Civic Arts Forum (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,877 to it, the largest being Polk Bros Foundation Inc ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kindred Civic Arts Forum have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $704,877 in grants to Kindred Civic Arts Forum, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kindred Civic Arts Forum?
- Polk Bros Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kindred Civic Arts Forum 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9 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