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3ARTS INC

EIN 36-1867637 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$2,033,779
Expenses 2024
$2,050,483

Program services were 67.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A99
Classification
1200
Street
200 W MADISON ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc. (the Organization) is an Illinois not-for-profit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan area, including women artists, artists of color, and deaf and disabled artists. By providing unrestricted awards, project funding, residencies, professional development, and promotion, the Organization helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers over time. The Organization is supported primarily through public contributions, government grants, and investment income.

  • Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc. (the Organization) is an Illinois not-for-profit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan area, including women artists, artists of color, and deaf and disabled artists. By providing unrestricted awards, project funding, residencies, professional development, and promotion, the Organization helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers over time. The Organization is supported primarily through public contributions, government grants, and investment income.

    Expenses $1,377,916 · Grants $909,197

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Esther Grimm

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $288,023
    From this org
    $263,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,946
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $263,077
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,946
    Filer's total
    $288,023

  • Katie Dowling

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kimberly Manuel-Dickens

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Acasia Wilson Feinberg

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Scott Wang

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Remberto del Real

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alice Dubose

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joanie Friedman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Whitney Hill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erica Hubbard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sebastian Marentes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Mohrfeld

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Quiara

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eva Silverman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katy Simmons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Siurek

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeremy Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETE BUSE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMY COCHRAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,033,779
    Expenses
    $2,050,483
    Contributions
    $1,573,589
    Grants paid
    $909,197
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,557,868
    Expenses
    $1,917,306
    Contributions
    $1,232,453
    Grants paid
    $1,033,514
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,443,688
    Expenses
    $1,656,829
    Contributions
    $2,011,909
    Grants paid
    $921,117

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,551,186
    Expenses
    $2,152,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,078,620

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,500,602
    Expenses
    $5,164,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,056,343

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,511,439
    Expenses
    $1,228,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,119,051

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,113,048
    Expenses
    $1,086,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,673,752

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,300,440
    Expenses
    $1,163,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,804,668

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $699,255
    Expenses
    $991,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,105,345

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $818,947
    Expenses
    $996,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,906,796

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,102,643
    Expenses
    $855,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,624,685

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $708,409
    Expenses
    $724,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,597,775

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $675,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,838,679

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.