Illinois · Nonprofit
YES MAAM CIRCUS
YES MAAM CIRCUS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being THE DR EDWARD S ORZAC FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Yes Maam Circus does
Programs
Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival- 10 performing arts companies including Yes Maam Circus produced 10 unique shows sold 400 tickets and paid over 30 artists from April 10-13 at The Atria in Chicagos Humboldt Park neighborhood. The event included a ground-breaking fusion of circus and sustainable fashion in conjunction with Northwestern Universitys SPiN Lab.
$14,180 spentStory Time- 3 free shows funded by a grant for Chicagos Night Out in the Parks summer series. 3 unique shows performed across Chicago public parks for a mix of under-served day camps and affluent areas featuring world myths told through circus by a diverse cast of 15 artists.
$4,576 spentCircus Holiday Market- A holiday market for local artisans featuring performances by local circus artists. Free to the public with sliding scale vendor fees and a donation based craft table for kids. This year we partnered with Cirques Experience at their winter showcase. The Edgewater Chamber of Commerce helped expand our reach
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $11k (+21%).
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
Amancay Kugler
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of YES MAAM CIRCUS’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
YES MAAM CIRCUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of YES MAAM CIRCUS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like YES MAAM CIRCUS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YES MAAM CIRCUS: 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 YES MAAM CIRCUS?
- YES MAAM CIRCUS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being THE DR EDWARD S ORZAC FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YES MAAM CIRCUS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,500 in grants to YES MAAM CIRCUS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YES MAAM CIRCUS?
- THE DR EDWARD S ORZAC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YES MAAM CIRCUS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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