Illinois · Nonprofit
THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,933,860 to it, the largest being THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION ($2,781,711). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $232k
What The Chicago High School for the Arts does
Mission
The Chicago High School for the Arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The academic curriculum provides students with a rigorous college preparatory education.
$7,476,950 spent69% of program spendingThe arts program is designed to be a pre-professional training program.
$3,334,450 spent$315,396 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,811,400.
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 $2.9M to $1.9M (−35%).
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 59% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 75% · 2023 75% · 2024 72% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tina Boyer Brown
Executive director
Board chair
Duffie Adelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $269k → $126k.
14 of 77 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest ChiArts Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 11% · 2019 19% · 2020 45% · 2021 84% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — 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
26% of THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
96% of THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: 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 CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
- THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,933,860 to it, the largest being THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION ($2,781,711). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $5,933,860 in grants to THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
- THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,781,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 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 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing