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Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois

To accelerate preserving and reusing significant places statewide to foster healthy, livable and thriving communities.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$105kCommunity Improvement$11kHousing & Shelter$6kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $60,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A HOUSE IN AUSTIN$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $5k → 7%KANE COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION: $6k → 8%VILLAGE OF GREENVIEW: $5k → 9%SHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AMERICAN LEGION POST 645: $10k → 13%NEEDS AND GOALS OF ELKHART: $5k → 14%AMERICAN LEGION POST #0488: $5k → 14%SCHUYLER COUNTY ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MOLINE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 15%SAVE PIETY HILL: $6k → 15%CITY OF AURORA: $13k → 8%HYDE PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%CITY OF AURORA: $5k → 8%HERITAGE GRANT PROGRAMFRIENDS OF PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITE: $5k → 14%GOLD STAR MOTHERS MEMORIAL: $10k → 14%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 14%THE CENTER FOR WOMENS HISTORY AND LEADERSHIP: $5k → 14%A HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $6k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF OAK PARK: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture
2
LeRoy Area Historical Society

Promote history of the city of LeRoy

Arts & Culture
3
East Liverpool Historical Society
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4
Orland Park History Museum Foundation

Exhibits and programs of the history of Orland Park, IL.

Arts & Culture
5
St Louis Park Historical Society

The mission of the Society is the collection preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the history of St Louis Park

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6
Lake County Historical Society

Historical museum

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7
Rose Hill Historical Society

Preservation of historic buildings and artifacts

Arts & Culture
8
Upperville Preservation Society
Environment
9
Historic Rapid City

Restore and Preserve Historic House

Arts & Culture
10
Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall Association

Manage, Maintain and Operate Historic Public Building

Arts & Culture
11
Elizabeth Twp Historical Society

Society formed for the preservation of history of Elizabeth Township.

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12
Olmsted Historical Society

Preserve HIstorical Depot

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moline Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is A House in Austin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF AURORA ILLINOIS: $18,000 · OtherCITY OF AURORA ILLINOISKANE COUNTY CLERK: $11,500 · OtherKANE COUNTY CLERKGOLD STAR MOTHERS MEMORIAL: $10,000 · OtherGOLD STAR MOTHERS MEMORIALAMERICAN LEGION POST 645: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 645SAVE PIETY HILL: $6,000 · OtherSAVE PIETY HILLHERITAGE GRANT PROGRAMFRIENDS OF PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITE: $5,000 · OtherHERITAGE GRANT PROGRAMFRIENDS OF PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITEVILLAGE OF GREENVIEW: $5,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF GREENVIEWCANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5,000 · OtherCANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRISTAMERICAN LEGION POST #0488: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST #0488FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF OAK PARK: $5,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF OAK PARKNEEDS AND GOALS OF ELKHART INC: $5,000 · OtherNEEDS AND GOALS OF ELKHART INCHYDE PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherHYDE PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETYELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureELMHURST ART MUSE…FRIENDS OF THE OLD MILLSTADT WATER TOWER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE OL…SCHUYLER COUNTY ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSCHUYLER COUNTY A…THE CENTER FOR WOMENS HISTORY AND LEADERSHIP: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR WO…A HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $6,000 · EducationSHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMOLINE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$90,500Arts & Culture$20,000Education$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OLD MILLSTADT WATER TOWER: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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