Illinois · Nonprofit
The Digs Chicago
The Digs Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,530 to it, the largest being CAROL OPPENHEIM AND JEROME S LAMET CHARITABLE FUND ($43,530). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Digs Chicago has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- American Journalism Project Incshared funders
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio match
- The Richard H Driehaus Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
70% of The Digs Chicago’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Digs Chicago’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Digs Chicago's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- American Journalism Project Incshared fundersDC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Driehaus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 3arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncrc Community Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Field Foundation of Illinoisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rdk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Weasel Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like The Digs Chicago
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Digs Chicago: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Digs Chicago?
- The Digs Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,530 to it, the largest being CAROL OPPENHEIM AND JEROME S LAMET CHARITABLE FUND ($43,530). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Digs Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,530 in grants to The Digs Chicago, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Digs Chicago?
- CAROL OPPENHEIM AND JEROME S LAMET CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Digs Chicago 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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