Illinois · Nonprofit
BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,500 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Bronzeville Children's Museum does
Mission
Charitable Operation of Childrens Museum for Educational, Cultural and Other Purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bronzeville Childrens Museum has provided a Child Friendly environment to over 5,100 children in efforts to help reduce illiteracy and open the doors to knowledge, self-esteem and hope for underserved African-American children ages three to eleven years.
$132,551 spentof which $50,000 as grants$41,396 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $132,551.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.6M (−3%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Dr Billie Wright
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’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
BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
75% 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 BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
“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
100% of BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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
BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: 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 BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,500 to it, the largest being IFF ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $66,500 in grants to BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRONZEVILLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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