Illinois · Nonprofit
PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY
PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,560 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($137,850). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Project Danztheatre Company does
Mission
Challenges, engages and inspires audiences both onstage and in the classroom, through innovative, multidisciplinary storytelling in the genre of tanztheatre, which unites all art media and to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in humankind. As an ensemble, we collaboratively create thought-provoking arts performances and educational outreach programs incorporating elements of theatre, music, movement, visual arts and literary text. We are dedicated to performance with a purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cde's outreach programs, kids project and teen artist project, works with over 5,000 students in the chicagoland area bringing low-cost, multidisciplinary arts education to students who would not otherwise have such opportunities. We teach an integrated arts curriculum that makes the creative process immediately available to the students, and encourage them to draw inspiration from their own lives and from what they are learning in school. We believe that arts education greatly contributes to students' holistic development as confident, creative, positive contributors to society.
$338,510 spent90% of program spendingOUR PERFORMANCE PIECES EXPLORE THEMES THAT ARE SOCIALLY RELEVANT AND INCORPORATE A RANGE OF ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES. Through innovative, multidisciplinary storytelling we unite varied art media to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in humankind.
$39,552 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $378,062.
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 2017 to 2018, from $41k to $72k (+77%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $19k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY’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
PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 72% · 2020 80% · 2021 77% · 2022 39% · 2023 45% — 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
66% of PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $74k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k 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
PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY has grown faster than half 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 PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY: 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 PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY?
- PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,560 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($137,850). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $218,560 in grants to PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $137,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT DANZTHEATRE COMPANY 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 7 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