Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT
AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,651,700 to it, the largest being RESTORATION OF AMERICA ($3,500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What American Culture Project does
Mission
Promotion of free market solutions to complex national problems
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promoted free market solutions for complex policy challenges with community leaders.
$2,689,570 spentof which $675 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,689,570.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $161k to $1.4M (+765%).
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.
100% of AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
John Tillman
Chairman and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT’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
AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
100% 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 AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT
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.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Culture Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT: 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 AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT?
- AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,651,700 to it, the largest being RESTORATION OF AMERICA ($3,500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,651,700 in grants to AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT?
- RESTORATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CULTURE PROJECT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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