Illinois · Nonprofit
PHANTOM REGIMENT INC
PHANTOM REGIMENT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,930 to it, the largest being MARIE LOUISE HUNT CHARITABLE TUW ($59,691). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Phantom Regiment Inc does
Mission
Phantom regiment's vision is a world full of empowered and passionate leaders. We accomplpish this through our mission: providing life-changing experiences through performing arts education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Established in 1956 as a part of the rockford vfw post 342, phantom regiment, inc. Is a youth organization dedicated to the development of self-esteem and self-reliance. It encourages teamwork, sportsmanship, civic pride and contributions of one's personal best to a group effort. These lessons are learned through a musical and marching activity in which there is a blending of the arts and athletics. Phantom regiment prides itself on providing a life-changing experience for the youth that participate in any of our programs. We want to offer a conduit through which they succeed not only within the music education world, which is one of our primary focuses, but also providing lessons they can apply to other areas of their life. We provide youth activities that enhance the personal growth and development of its participants through excellence in education, entertainment and the performing arts. It's activities make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom continue their education and become music educators throughout the country while others become professional musicians and dancers. We find that many of our activities have a life-long impact on the students due to the skills…
Educational camps - phantom regiment has been producing summer educational camps since 2003. We hold camps for drum major, brass, percussion and color guard. These 3 or 4-day camps are held throughout the united states and are attended by high school students that want to improve their skills. The educational camp staff is made up of some of the best high school and college band directors from around the country, most of whom are current or former members of the phantom regiment instructional staff. Our educational camp students get an intense, hands-on experience that generally includes interactive session with the drum corps. Surveys of the camp students have shown that the education and experience they've gained at one of our camps have helped them become better performers and leaders back at their high school programs.
Phantom regiment academy offers both in-person and virtual training opportunities with some of the best marching arts educators in the world.
$2,695,521 spent100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,695,521.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.0M (+54%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 26% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of PHANTOM REGIMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Amanda Hamaker
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $68k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PHANTOM REGIMENT 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
PHANTOM REGIMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 PHANTOM REGIMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 42% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of PHANTOM REGIMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PHANTOM REGIMENT INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PHANTOM REGIMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PHANTOM REGIMENT INC
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
81% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHANTOM REGIMENT INC?
- PHANTOM REGIMENT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,930 to it, the largest being MARIE LOUISE HUNT CHARITABLE TUW ($59,691). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHANTOM REGIMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $191,930 in grants to PHANTOM REGIMENT INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHANTOM REGIMENT INC?
- MARIE LOUISE HUNT CHARITABLE TUW is the largest funder on record, with $59,691 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHANTOM REGIMENT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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