Illinois · Nonprofit
VILLAPALOOZA INC
VILLAPALOOZA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,210 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Villapalooza Inc does
Mission
Villapalooza Inc. is dedicated to promoting safe spaces for arts culture and community engagement. We strive to reframe the dominant narrative of Little Village through the development of multiple platforms to showcase local talent and preserve our neighborhoods cultural identity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Villapalooza festival provides a unique space for visual craft performance and musical artists to display their talents and to create a diverse and unique experience that reflects and respects the culture of the community. Performance artists have access to performance space and a diverse audience. Visual and craft artists display and sell their work and provide workshops. Year round events bring the multidisciplinary elements of the festival to community spaces across Little Village.The 2025 Villapalooza Music and Arts Festival organized and hosted three free community pop-up events in collaboration with The Chicago Park District at Piotrowski Park on June 14th 2025,Shedd Park on July 12th 2025 and October 31st 2025. These events provided accessible arts music and cultural programming for Little Village residents of all ages. Approximately 800 community members attended and benefited from the Villapalooza Pop-Up Series across both park events. Participants included children,
$22,463 spentof which $27,300 as grants91% of program spendingIn collaboration with Villarte - Little Village Arts Festival Villapalooza participated in a Da de los Muertos celebration held on November 1st 2025 at Malinalli Garden providing free arts and cultural programming for the Little Village community. The event featured a Da de los Muertos themed art installation live performances by a local Marimba group and interactive art workshops for community members of all ages. Approximately 100 residents attended the event which created a welcoming space for families artists and neighbors to gather and celebrate cultural traditions through music visual arts and community participation. The collaboration helped promote cultural preservation artistic expression and community engagement while supporting local artists and increasing access to free public arts programming in Little Village.
$2,340 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,803.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $888 to $77k (+8591%).
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.
100% of VILLAPALOOZA INC’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jesus Contreras Jr
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $30.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 VILLAPALOOZA INC’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
VILLAPALOOZA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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 VILLAPALOOZA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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 VILLAPALOOZA INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
VILLAPALOOZA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VILLAPALOOZA INC
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VILLAPALOOZA INC: 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 VILLAPALOOZA INC?
- VILLAPALOOZA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,210 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VILLAPALOOZA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $62,210 in grants to VILLAPALOOZA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VILLAPALOOZA INC?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VILLAPALOOZA INC 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 4 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