Illinois · Nonprofit
CAXTON CLUB
CAXTON CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,120 to it, the largest being T KIMBALL BROOKER FOUNDATION ($101,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $701k
What Caxton Club does
Mission
Provide for the promotion and study of the arts and technologies pertaining to the printed book and related textual objects such as artists' books, broadsides, ephemera, manuscripts, maps and pamphlets.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Club offers members only 6 journals printed and mailed annually. Members also have exclusive use of our website membership portal, which provides digital access to all journals printed since inception of the program in 1993, complete with indexes to enhance searchability by topic and speaker. The membership portal also includes past Club publications and keepsakes, and access to all past recorded video programming. Caxtonian Collects, another membership benefit, allows member only to share items in their collection with the public, but only members are permitted to submit entries. Portions of the membership programming efforts are underwritten by dues collected from members, with the balance supported by donations or the over 500 hours of volunteer labor needed to support these efforts.
$38,187 spent$22,039 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe Club supported scholarships, awards, and grants to foster the next generation of book scholars. This support included $8,500 in scholarships given to Rare Book School and the Bibliographic Society of America. Additionally, $5,280 and individual gifts were given to those completing work in the book arts. The Club supported awards given to young book collectors through programs sponsored by others, ie Honey and Wax Prize, Kim Brooker Book Collecting Prize, and more.
$15,961 spentof which $13,780 as grants12% of program spendingCaxton Club organized and produced or cosponsored 30 cultural programs focused on the book. These programs were free and open to the public. 10 were live to members and nonmembers with all others virtually recorded, allowing all participants, regardless of location or membership status, the opportunity to enjoy these programs and participate in Q&A. The Club supports a separate website, Caxtonian.org, which allows the public to view all but the 4 most recent years of the Caxtonian on-line to make our scholarship broadly available. Further Caxton Club archiving efforts-which include digital and paper copies of all Caxtonian issues, all publications and printed matter, and all video recordings-are publicly available at the Newberry. The Club maintains this archive and the server space necessary to make this possible.
$84,243 spent$1,585 earned by the program61% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,391.
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 2020 to 2021, from $333k to $547k (+64%).
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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $2k.
From the IRS filings of CAXTON CLUB’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
CAXTON CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 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
CAXTON CLUB draws 88% 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. 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 CAXTON CLUB
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 CAXTON CLUB: 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 CAXTON CLUB?
- CAXTON CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,120 to it, the largest being T KIMBALL BROOKER FOUNDATION ($101,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAXTON CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $121,120 in grants to CAXTON CLUB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAXTON CLUB?
- T KIMBALL BROOKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $101,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAXTON CLUB 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 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing