Illinois · Nonprofit
OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC
OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,481 to it, the largest being OAK PARK AREA ARTS COUNCIL ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Oak Park Concert Chorale Inc does
Mission
Fostering appreciating of quality choral music through affordable concert tickets, promoting cultural enrichment in our region, supporting efforts in the broad field of music education and premiering works by local composers. We are ensuring a more widely representative canon of composers and works. Going into the 2025-26 season, we have been focusing on expanding our mission by including joint performances with area ensembles and exploring the many ways in which the power of music may lead to a greater sense of community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free musicianship and vocal technique classes. Artistic Director Lindblad held free classes for 2 hours once per week for 2 students ,under the age of 13, from July through Dec, and for 3 students January through April. Classes for 4 adults for 2 hours once per week from July through April.
$0 spent0% of program spendingAuditions by Artistic Director Lindblad was for 16 singers between Sept 2023-March 2024. 4 singers joined the Chorale. We purchased recruitment audition ads that were the local newspapers in July-August-October 2023 and February 2024. Digital ads in August 2023. Also printed audition fliers that were posted in local businesses in October for spring 2024 semester and in April and May 2024, for the fall 2024 semester.
$628 spent2% of program spendingFall Christmas concert Nov 19, 2023 MAKE WE JOY NOW IN THIS FEST at St John Lutheran Church, Forest Park, IL. Premiered 3 songs by local composers and had 4 paid instrumentalists for playing percussion, auto harp, flute, oboe and organ on various songs. 179 attendees plus 27 performers, 2 volunteers, 2 recording technicians for a total of 210 at the concert. Grant money was used to pay for 4 artists, to restring 2 auto harps, cover Eventbrite processing fees for Oct ticket sales. Grantee cash match of $2100 was flagged for part of artistic director's fall semester compensation. Program service expenses included the above mentioned plus graphic design, printing, postage, advertising, workshop expenses, music, recording engineer, space rental, etc.
$13,871 spentof which $4,855 as grants54% of program spendingSpring concert was scheduled for April 28, 2024 CANTICLES FOR THE SOUL at St John Lutheran Church, Forest Park, IL. We were to premiere 2 pieces by local composers. We had an all-day rehearsal workshop in January and a half-day workshop in March along with our annual meeting. Concert posters, postcards, program booklet were designed and printed and concert postcards mailed and emailed. Two instrumentalists for organ and flute were to perform with us. The concert was cancelled on April 26 after our artistic director had a serious health crisis that day. Advance purchased tickets were refunded by May 6. Grant money was tagged for graphic artist design, printing of concert program booklet. Program service expenses included spring semester compensation for artistic director and financial secretary along with printing music, postage, rehearsal workshop fees, supplies, etc. As part of the spring semester, we also had a special recording session on March 12, 2024, as the director wanted a few songs from Christmas 2023 and Spring 2023 concerts to be re-recorded for inclusion in a future potential download release of music. The re-recording session was covered by grant money.
$11,146 spentof which $980 as grants43% of program spendingChorale participates every year in the Oak Park Annual A Day in Our Village, the first Sunday of June. A festival celebrating diversity and community involvement. It allows the community to discover the various organizations and businesses in the village. It provides us an opportunity to seek out new singers and patrons for our concerts. There is a booth rental fee and we provide copies of our Singers Brochure which provides details about membership in OPCC. 17 individuals asked to be added to our email list and 6 singers filled-out audition request forms. After their auditions, 3 joined for the Fall 2024 semester. We used grant money to pay for printing up copies of Singer Brochure. 5 singers helped with setup and take down and manning the booth. Event ran 11am-4pm.
$105 spentof which $55 as grants0% of program spendingMay 2024, the Board of Directors created a search committee to start the process to find a new artistic director, due to the April 26 health crisis of our long-time director. Four resumes were submitted during June. Zoom interviews and in-person conducting sessions with part of the Chorale took place in July, which was at the start of our new fiscal year for our 2024-25 season. By middle of July the Board had a decision and made an offer to Paul Laprade, who accepted. No expenses incurred. No expenses incurred.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,750.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $41k to $31k (−24%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
William Lyman
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $51.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC’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
OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
100% of OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231 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.
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Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC?
- OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,481 to it, the largest being OAK PARK AREA ARTS COUNCIL ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,481 in grants to OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC?
- OAK PARK AREA ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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