Illinois · Nonprofit
MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO
MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,597 to it, the largest being The Mathenaeum Foundation ($91,597). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $279k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Math Cultural Center of Chicago does
Mission
MC3 immerses visitors in a sensory, interactive, and captivating journey, connecting them to math and through math by revealing its role in art, culture, nature, technology, and daily life showing how math has shaped society and will continue to be key to our future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to open and maintain a Math Cultural Center in Chicago whose objective is to infuse mathematics into popular culture. We aim to connect people to mathematics, and through mathematics. We'll propose exhibits, programs, tours and events that will serve visitors of all ages and backgrounds.
$398,223 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $398,223.
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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $312k (+171%).
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.
99% of MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO’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 3 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.
Board chair
Julia Stasch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 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 MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO.
“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
MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
Against its field
MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MATH 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO?
- MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,597 to it, the largest being The Mathenaeum Foundation ($91,597). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $166,597 in grants to MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATH CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO?
- The Mathenaeum Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $91,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATH 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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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