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Illinois · Nonprofit
SYCAMORE MUSIC BOOSTERS (Illinois) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $61,471 in grants to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,345). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SYCAMORE MUSIC BOOSTERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 20,094 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,094 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$476 from 1 funders in 2024, up from $9k and 2 in 2017.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SYCAMORE MUSIC BOOSTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
SYCAMORE MUSIC BOOSTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
SYCAMORE MUSIC BOOSTERS is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 263 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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. view filing