Illinois · Nonprofit
OPEN Center for the Arts
OPEN Center for the Arts (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,129,624 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($330,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $441k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $9k
What OPEN Center for the Arts does
Mission
To provide a space where all can come together to share, showcase, and refine their artistice talents while connecting their growth to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artecito is a bimonthly workshp presented via zoom and in person at different community locations. This project was created in collaborati with Lincoln Park Zoo and presented 26 workshops in the last calendar year. Participants explore different plants and wildlife through a presentation and reinforced through the Arts.
$60,000 spent46% of program spendingLa Plaza de Marshall Square, a community-led vision to transform one of Chicagos historic boulevards into a vibrant public plaza inspired plazas and central gardens found throughout the world. Residents have consistently shared the importance of green spaces, public gathering areas, and family centered environments. La Plaza seeks to honor these traditions while crating a welcoming and culturally rooted public space in Marshall Square.
$50,000 spent38% of program spendingThe LAWNDALE Project serves as a bridge between North Lawndale and South Lawndale communities, harnessing the transformative power of the Arts to foster connection and unity. By bringing these neighbohoods together, the project seeks to create a cohesive community where residents can celebrate their shared heritage and creativity.
$21,285 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,285.
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. 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 $36k to $9k (−75%).
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 66% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of OPEN Center for the Arts’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 5 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
Jorge O Magana
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $82k → $317k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 OPEN Center for the Arts’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
OPEN Center for the Arts has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 OPEN Center for the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 61% · 2022 53% · 2023 57% — 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
98% of OPEN Center for the Arts's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k 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
OPEN Center for the Arts 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 OPEN Center for the Arts
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 OPEN Center for the Arts: 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 OPEN Center for the Arts?
- OPEN Center for the Arts (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,129,624 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($330,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN Center for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,129,624 in grants to OPEN Center for the Arts, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN Center for the Arts?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN Center for the Arts 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 18 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