Illinois · Nonprofit
DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,500 to it, the largest being H D SMITH FOUNDATION ($759,923). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- United Way of Central Illinois Incshared funderslocal
- Society of Architectural Historiansportfolio match
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2020 2% · 2021 46% · 2023 1% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $99k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC’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
DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
40% of DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
89% of DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 247 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Central Illinois Incshared funderslocalIL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Society of Architectural Historiansportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1772 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Health SystemlocalIL · funds 17 organizations near you
- M G Nelson Family Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: 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 DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
- DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,500 to it, the largest being H D SMITH FOUNDATION ($759,923). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $879,500 in grants to DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
- H D SMITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $759,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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