Illinois · Nonprofit
Billy Graham Center
Billy Graham Center (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,301,157 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Billy Graham Center does
Mission
The mission of wheaton college Billy Graham Center is to develop and mobilize jesus-followers for the individual and communal witness. Our vision is to see a world transformed by the gospel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In advance of our mission, the Billy Graham Center maintains archives related to evangelism and mission and a museum that celebrates the gospel message and the history of evangelism in north america. In cooperation with wheaton college graduate school, we encourage a concern for missions and evangelism by offering nonacademic programs for pastors, ministry leaders, and the general public to help them revitalize a passion for evangelism in their ministries. Scholarships. The Billy Graham Center provides "billy graham scholars" with scholarships from endowment proceeds for wheaton college graduate school and an undergraduate "colson scholarship" for formerly incarcerated people. Initiatives. We identify special needs in the church and -through our current initiatives - support efforts to help christian colleges prepare students to share their faith, equip christians to use new technologies in evangelism, convene evangelism ministry leaders through our evangelism leaders fellowship, and serve as the north american office for the global evangelism movement, lausanne. Institutes. Our nine institutes stimulated the development of new evangelism strategies, conducting research, convening…
$4,447,268 spentof which $1,676,220 as grants$652,051 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,447,268.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.5M to $8.6M (+58%).
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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Andrew COOK
Executive director
Board chair
DR Philip Ryken
President, Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $800k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Billy Graham Center’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
Billy Graham Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 77% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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
0% of Billy Graham Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 FY2023, 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
Billy Graham Center draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Billy Graham Center
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Wheaton College · exempt
- Wheaton College Alumni Association · exempt
- Wheaton College Trust Company Na · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Billy Graham Center: 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 Billy Graham Center?
- Billy Graham Center (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,301,157 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Billy Graham Center have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $7,301,157 in grants to Billy Graham Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Billy Graham Center?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Billy Graham Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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