Illinois · Nonprofit
SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE
SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,828 to it, the largest being IFF ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $487k
- Net assets
- $569k
What Sones de Mexico Ensemble does
Mission
To promote greater appreciation of Mexican folk and traditional music and culture through innovative performance, education, and dissemination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performing Ensemble - The ensemble plays and records the various styles of Mexican traditional music.
$83,702 spent$50,475 earned by the program39% of program spendingMusic School - The program makes the regular practice of Mexican traditional music accessible through weekly music instructions in Spanish to dozens of students, young and old.
$48,617 spent$12,546 earned by the program23% of program spendingEducational Outreach - The program makes the appreciation of and participation in Mexican traditional music and culture accessible and available to schools, libraries, and cultural organizations.
$44,638 spent$7,250 earned by the program21% of program spendingMedia Projects - The program, through CDs, films, videos, webpages, podcasts, social media, instructional books, teaching guides, maps, radio programs, podcasts, and videos on demand, disseminates Mexican traditional music and culture, especially the work of the Organizations Ensemble.
$36,328 spent$26 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $213,285.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $344k to $478k (+39%).
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: 2019 22% · 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 10% · 2023 20% · 2024 20% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE’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. 0 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $59k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 97% · 2020 39% · 2021 80% · 2022 56% · 2023 43% — 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
40% of SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
91% of SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $223k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$215k
- Smithsonian Institution$8k
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 SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE: 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 SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE?
- SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,828 to it, the largest being IFF ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $486,828 in grants to SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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