Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,000 to it, the largest being John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated) ($245,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Democracy Fund Incshared funders
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio match
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $225k → $220k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES’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
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 89% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heineman-Russell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of American Railroadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Critical Care Nursesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cohen Veterans Bioscience Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smithsonian Institutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Mellon Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $283k on record — $207k federal, $76k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
- Department of Defense$67k
- Department of Agriculture$61k
- Environmental Protection Agency$4k
- OK$75k
- CT$2k
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 CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES?
- CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,000 to it, the largest being John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated) ($245,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $445,000 in grants to CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES?
- John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated) is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing