Illinois · Nonprofit
PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER
PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,515,504 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($2,771,981). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Puerto Rican Cultural Center does
Mission
A non-profit, community-based umbrella institution, which seeks to serve the social/cultural needs of chicago's puerto rican/latino community. It is built on the following principles: a philosophy of self-determination, a methodology of self-actualization and critical thought, and an ethics of self-reliance best expressed in the motto, "to live and help to live." the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (prcc) is named after juan antonio corretjer, the celebrated puerto rican national poet and political leader. It serves as a place where people come together to address the critical problems confronting the community and to recover their history, to share in the music, poetry, and drama of puerto ricans both at home and in the diaspora. All prcc programs encourage participants to think critically about their reality, as well as to formulate a vision of social ecology defined by being holistic in content and organic in nature and to promote an ethics of self-reliance based on social responsibili
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Local project funding
$12,526,103 spent$12,625,272 earned by the program100% of program spendingPaseo
Chicago public schools safe passage
Substance abuse, head start, capacity building, other
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,526,103.
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.
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 $9.2M to $11M (+23%).
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: 2017 84% · 2018 71% · 2019 82% · 2020 90% · 2021 83% · 2022 82% · 2023 76% · 2024 71% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $502k → $1.4M.
7 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — 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
42% of PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
81% of PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$13.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.2M
- Department of Justice$400k
- Small Business Administration$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER
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
93% 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 PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER: 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 PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER?
- PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,515,504 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($2,771,981). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $8,515,504 in grants to PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER?
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $2,771,981 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER 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 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing