Illinois · Nonprofit
TRICKSTER ART GALLERY
TRICKSTER ART GALLERY (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,975 to it, the largest being Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ($370,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $903k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $217k
What Trickster Art Gallery does
Mission
Trickster's mission is to increase the visibility of Native American traditions, honor veteran contributions, and advance contemporary cultural arts through community engagement and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Native American Veterans Programs - The Gallery and the Native culture have a deep respect for veterans, especially of Native American origin. The Gallery is dedicated to educating the population about the role that Native veterans have played in the United States' military history and is working to increase their recognition. The Chicago area has the third largest off-reservation native population in the United States, with over 104,000 self-identified people in Illinois of Native descent. Since native people make up the largest percentage of any race volunteering for military service, it is important for them to be recognized and given the respect they deserve within the community.
$503,876 spent100% of program spendingArt Gallery and Exhibitions - The Gallery teaches dramatically the culture of modern American Indians. Contemporary American Indian art becomes the medium bringing the American Indian culture to life, using present-day artistic venues. The Gallery is multi-cultural and highlights artistic contributions of other-Americans as well those of American Indians. Through rotating exhibits of paintings, sculpture, pottery, workshops on dance and music and other visual media, the Gallery creates mutual cultural awareness through an artistic exchange. In bringing together present-day art from the two cultures, living traditions emerge showing how much exists in common between American Indians and other Americans.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $503,876.
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 2023 to 2024, from $26k to $342k (+1216%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 39% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 10% · 2023 33% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TRICKSTER ART GALLERY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Gina Roxas
Executive Director
Board chair
Jennifer Wofford
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $149k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 TRICKSTER ART GALLERY’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
TRICKSTER ART GALLERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 TRICKSTER ART GALLERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — 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
57% of TRICKSTER ART GALLERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
93% of TRICKSTER ART GALLERY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $564k 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
TRICKSTER ART GALLERY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TRICKSTER ART GALLERY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRICKSTER ART GALLERY
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
86% 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 TRICKSTER ART GALLERY: 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 TRICKSTER ART GALLERY?
- TRICKSTER ART GALLERY (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,975 to it, the largest being Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ($370,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRICKSTER ART GALLERY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,361,975 in grants to TRICKSTER ART GALLERY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRICKSTER ART GALLERY?
- Chicago Blackhawks Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRICKSTER ART GALLERY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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