Illinois · Nonprofit
SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN
SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,192 to it, the largest being CIRCLE OF SERVICE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Incshared funders
- Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Heal Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 19% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $50k → $130k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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
52% of SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
67% of SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Incshared fundersIL · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heal Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara Stone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jordan Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Next for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 47 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 SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: 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 SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN?
- SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,192 to it, the largest being CIRCLE OF SERVICE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $724,192 in grants to SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN?
- CIRCLE OF SERVICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN 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 42funders 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