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SkyArt NFP

SkyArt NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750,326 to it, the largest being Caerus Foundation Inc ($882,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
63
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$3.7M
37/63 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What SkyArt NFP does

Mission

To provide youth with an accessible, safe place to participate in quality visual arts programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Project Third Space (P3S) is a year-long program for high school-aged youth and young adults from the ages of 14 to 24 who are serious about art and see it as a pathway into their future. The program is meant to be both a crucial bridge between high school and meaningful post-secondary educational and career opportunities as well as an encouraging environment for self-discovery, communication, and collaboration.

    $378,944 spentof which $17,137 as grants$92,362 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  2. SkyArt created Project Impact for youth ages 7 to 24 in response to the unprecedented need for mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants receive free individual and group art therapy with a licensed therapist. Art therapy can be especially effective for young people who may not have the vocabulary or experience to put their emotions into words. Through art therapy, SkyArt helps youth process trauma, isolation, depression, etc. Through Project Impact, we aim to help youth improve their overall sense of well-being, self-esteem, compassion and empathy for others.

    $833,267 spent$45,270 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  3. The Skyway, for youth ages 7 to 13, is an innovative approach to our studio programs that blurs the lines of formal art education and focuses on the art-making as an inherently educational experience. It is a pedagogy based not on lesson plans or set projects, but on more open and more deeply engaging created processes. Guided by a collaborative cohort of resident teaching artists, participants are immersed in a world of imaginative possibilities, invited to explore a broad variety of creating forms and activities.

    $413,216 spent$82,793 earned by the program
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,625,427.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($515k) Expenses 100 ($845k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 259 ($1.3M) Expenses 116 ($978k) Net assets 120 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 189 ($972k) Expenses 120 ($1.0M) Net assets 118 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 141 ($726k) Expenses 121 ($1.0M) Net assets 110 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 337 ($1.7M) Expenses 110 ($929k) Net assets 156 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 352 ($1.8M) Expenses 155 ($1.3M) Net assets 184 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 355 ($1.8M) Expenses 212 ($1.8M) Net assets 186 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 537 ($2.8M) Expenses 274 ($2.3M) Net assets 213 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 391 ($2.0M) Expenses 258 ($2.2M) Net assets 208 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (391)Expenses (258)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.1M (+30%).

$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$3.1M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$4.1M
$4.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 20% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of SkyArt NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$330k
’17
$355k
’18
−$45k
’19
−$296k
’20
$806k
’21
$497k
’22
$35k
’23
$443k
’24
−$163k
’25
4.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Christopher S Dubose

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·03053604
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $137k → $784k.

11 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SkyArt NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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

SkyArt NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

28% 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 SkyArt NFP.

15%
largest funder
38%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 52% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 19% — 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

57% of SkyArt NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of SkyArt NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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NY
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SkyArt NFP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding SkyArt NFP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $195k on record.

Federal$195k
grants $195kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$195k

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 SkyArt NFP

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 12%Fundraising 13%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SkyArt NFP: 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 SkyArt NFP?
SkyArt NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750,326 to it, the largest being Caerus Foundation Inc ($882,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SkyArt NFP have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $5,750,326 in grants to SkyArt NFP, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SkyArt NFP?
Caerus Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $882,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SkyArt NFP 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 63 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