Illinois · Nonprofit
ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK
ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,120 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($25,853). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park does
Mission
To foster an understanding of the life and works of Ernest Hemingway with particular emphasis on his Oak Park origins and impact on world literature
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation operated the Ernest Hemingway birthplace home in Oak Park Illinois. The site was made available on a regularly scheduled basis to visitors and scholars interested in the life and writings of Ernest Hemingway. The foundation also maintained an archive of historical documents letters and held lectures and other cultural programs.
$85,143 spent$88,894 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $85,143.
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.
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 $1.0M to $1.1M (+8%).
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 15% · 2021 0% · 2022 60% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. 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 6 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
John Berry
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $28.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK’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
ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
71% of ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: 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 ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK?
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,120 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($25,853). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $50,120 in grants to ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing