Illinois · Nonprofit
RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS
RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,284 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($14,284). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Raw Talent Performing Arts does
Mission
To advocate a healthy environment for the youth by promoting the arts within the community and public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
TO ADVOCATE A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR THE YOUTH BY PROMOTING THE ARTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. We were awarded grants from the following organizations: Hulesbosch Foundation - $14K; IL Art Council - $ 2500; Healing IL Field Foundation - $14,784.00
$30,784 spentof which $30,784 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,784.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $12k to $29k (+151%).
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.
21% of RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Omouzuwa Seymour-EL
Executive Director Teaching Artist
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RAW TALENT PERFORMING 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.
Where its funders are
100% of RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RAW TALENT PERFORMING 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.
Public support
39%
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 RAW TALENT PERFORMING 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 RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS?
- RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,284 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($14,284). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,284 in grants to RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of RAW TALENT PERFORMING ARTS?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $14,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAW TALENT PERFORMING 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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