Illinois · Nonprofit
SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER
SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $745
What Sammy Dyer School of the Theater does
Mission
Dance and drama classes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Dance and drama classes and performances
$30,582 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,582.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $41k to $23k (−45%).
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.
50% of SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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 SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER’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 SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER'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
SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER 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 SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER?
- SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER?
- AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMMY DYER SCHOOL OF THE THEATER 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 2021–2025), 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