Illinois · Nonprofit
THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE
THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,179 to it, the largest being 3ARTS INC ($5,153). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $17k
What The Bach & Beethoven Experience does
Mission
To engage audiences with historically informed performances, practices and instruments; and to further engage communities in related educational initiatives, programming and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Three performances of a spanish summer, in collaboration with ensamble ad-hoc, celebrating the music of columbia and venezuela, incorporating traditional romances, ballads and working songs. Total attendance was 150.
$7,200 spent33% of program spendingTwo performances of twas the week before christmas in chicago featuring an interactive and engaging mix of chicago-themed holiday carol parodies and a chicagoans quest to catch the santa el train. Total attendance was 100.
$6,581 spent30% of program spendingA performance of the story of pa I sha, highlighting stories of chickasawancestors using original settings of traditional songs and hymns from the chickasaw & choctaw nations. See schedule o for related programming.
$5,214 spent24% of program spendingHeld a six-week residency in partnership with the peoples music school of chicago providing musical instruction and guidance. Total students served were approximately 200; and other artistic activities.
$2,600 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,595.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $14k (−45%).
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.
73% of THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE’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
THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE
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.
Public support
100%
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 THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE: 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 THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE?
- THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,179 to it, the largest being 3ARTS INC ($5,153). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,179 in grants to THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE?
- 3ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE 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 2 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