Illinois · Nonprofit
SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION
SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,964,974 to it, the largest being LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION ($382,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Service Club of Chicagolocalportfolio match
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared funders
- The Mardi Gras Fundportfolio match
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.
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% · 2024 24% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $200k → $305k.
8 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 55% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
39% of SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
85% of SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Service Club of Chicagolocalportfolio matchIL · funds 162 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- The Mardi Gras Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralla Klepak Performing Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Springboard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Driehaus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wings of Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary & Denise Gardner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $415k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$415k
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 SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION?
- SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,964,974 to it, the largest being LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION ($382,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $1,964,974 in grants to SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION?
- LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $382,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing