Illinois · Nonprofit
PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION
PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,796 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $706k
What Prairie Center Arts Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Prairie Center Arts Foundation is to enrich people's lives through cultural arts by providing awareness of and financial support to the schaumburb prairie center to the arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Schaumburg youth orchestra supplements young musicians' training and provides opportunities to learn and play music more challenging than might be found their school programs, thereby broadening and enhancing their experience. The syo serves a wide area of the north west suburbs and provides a college scholarship for an outstanding senior musician.
$8,683 spent9% of program spendingArts partner provides tickets and transportation to esl students and integrated language classrooms from area schools to attend a series of performances. Art partners was designed to provide risk students with the opportunity to experience cultural arts.
$1,368 spent1% of program spendingThe foundation supports the prairie center for the arts in schaumburg il to ensure and enrich the northwest suburbs with growth and excellence of the cultural arts.
To vitalize and enrich the cultural arts in the northwest suburbs through the prairie cernter for the arts.
$83,033 spent89% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,084.
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 2023 to 2024, from $279k to $706k (+153%).
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.
91% of PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION’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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $125.
1 of 5 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 PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION’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
PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 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
98% of PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $596 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
PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION?
- PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,796 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $13,796 in grants to PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION?
- LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAIRIE CENTER ARTS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), 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