Illinois · Nonprofit
THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION
THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,371 to it, the largest being Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities ($106,076). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $644k
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Ruth Page Foundation does
Mission
The Ruth Page Foundation (the foundation) is a nonprofit organization which operates the ruth page center and ruth page school of dance (the school), the mission of which is the development of dance and its related arts, including training and education of dancers and choreographers in the production of performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ruth page subsidized theater and studio rental program is a subsidized rental program which allows professional performing artists to present their work at greatly reduced costs.
$1,348,688 spent$691,086 earned by the program66% of program spendingThe ruth page in-residence program is a home for working performing artists, providing support for shared resources and marketing opportunities.
$147,754 spent$88,763 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe foundation licenses office and performance space at its facility, both on a month-to-month basis and for shorter terms.
$326,322 spent$196,037 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$220,704 spent$132,587 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,043,468.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $17M to $14M (−17%).
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 13% · 2022 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 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
Sara S Schumann
Executive director
Board chair
Thea Flum
Chair & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $78k → $103k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION’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 RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 49% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
88% of THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION: 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 RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION?
- THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,371 to it, the largest being Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities ($106,076). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $644,371 in grants to THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION?
- Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities is the largest funder on record, with $106,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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