Illinois · Nonprofit
YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO
YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,517 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Youth Choral Theater of Chicago does
Mission
The choir was formed to foster and promote participation in a children's choir and provide an opportunity for the further development of choral musical education of youth from the northern and northwestern chicago suburban area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Yct provides weekly classes which offer vocal instruction to children. These children typically perform 4 concerts annually. There are approximately 44 students that participate in these classes and concerts.
$68,341 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,341.
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 2017 to 2018, from $232k to $151k (−35%).
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: 2018 11% · 2019 3% · 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100 → $48k.
3 of 5 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 YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF 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.
How concentrated its funding is
YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 55% · 2023 42% — 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
67% of YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO
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
88%
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 YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO?
- YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,517 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $115,517 in grants to YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF CHICAGO?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CHORAL THEATER OF 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.
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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 5 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