Illinois · Nonprofit
ELMHURST ART MUSEUM
ELMHURST ART MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,468,569 to it, the largest being Robert W Goltermann and Marcia M Goltermann Charitable Trust ($427,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Elmhurst Art Museum does
Mission
Spark creativity and cultural enrichment through the visual arts, education, and architecture by providing thought-provoking, diverse exhibitions and programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spark creativity through the visual arts, education, and architecture by providing thought provoking, diverse exhibitions and programming. 1) the museum's exhibits and programming are split into 3 distinct seasons (spring, summer, and fall). Throughout the year the museum welcomed almost 7,375 visitors to the museum with programs around art, architecture, and education, and approximately 8,000 to outdoor community projects. 2) the art museum held art classes and camps through its education department, including instructional 8-week classes and summer camps. 3) the museum's annual fundraiser brought 208 donors together and generated a net of approximately $106,523 for the museum.
$1,143,740 spent$335,772 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,143,740.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $4.1M (+32%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 13% · 2021 28% · 2022 18% · 2023 41% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of ELMHURST ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Allison Peters Quinn
Executive director & chief curator
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $47k → $211k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 ELMHURST ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
ELMHURST ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 ELMHURST ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 56% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 43% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ELMHURST ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
76% of ELMHURST ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $562k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
ELMHURST ART MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ELMHURST ART MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 ELMHURST ART 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
82% 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 ELMHURST ART 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 ELMHURST ART MUSEUM?
- ELMHURST ART MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,468,569 to it, the largest being Robert W Goltermann and Marcia M Goltermann Charitable Trust ($427,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELMHURST ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,468,569 in grants to ELMHURST ART MUSEUM, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELMHURST ART MUSEUM?
- Robert W Goltermann and Marcia M Goltermann Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $427,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELMHURST ART 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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