Illinois · Nonprofit
LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT
LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,250 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $311k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Lawndale Pop-Up Spot does
Mission
The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot is a community museum in a shipping container dedicated to sponsoring exhibits and events by and for the community of North Lawndale in Chicago.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Reimagining 16th Street initiative to bring community members together with professional artists to create art along the 16th Street corridor in North Lawndale
$148,204 spent67% of program spendingSeries of community events, Sundays on the Boulevard, attended by over 3,000 attendees
$16,235 spent7% of program spendingExhibitions at Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, including Cornelia's Lounge, Readers Are Leaders, ReCovered, Together We Heal, and the Pay What You Want Bookstore
$13,111 spent6% of program spendingFridays on the Plaza; Let's Move, Lawndale; Litter-Free Lawndale & 16th Street Green Infrastructure Gardens
$44,796 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $38k → $83k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT’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
LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 66% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT: 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 LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT?
- LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,250 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $311,250 in grants to LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWNDALE POP-UP SPOT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 7 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