Illinois · Nonprofit
ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY
ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,900 to it, the largest being THE DICK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $0
What Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy does
Mission
public education
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
helping maintain National Historic Landmark home of Adlai E. Stevenson II
$0 spenteducational programming; Iran - US Relations, Oil Trains and Risk, Cuban Missile Crisis Explained, Internet Infrastructure, China Relations, Traveling Black, Insurrection in the US, Natural Conservation, Saving the News
$0 spentother program services; administration
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $122k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Howard Dubin
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $550 → $750.
From the IRS filings of ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY’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
ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 85% · 2020 77% · 2021 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2021, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY: 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 ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY?
- ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,900 to it, the largest being THE DICK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $16,900 in grants to ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY?
- THE DICK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADLAI STEVENSON CENTER ON DEMOCRACY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 8 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