Illinois · Nonprofit
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,637,664 to it, the largest being T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,100,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Frank Lloyd Wright Trust does
Mission
To engage the public in educational and aesthetic experiences to foster an appreciation of architecture, design and the legacy of frank lloyd wright.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education programs, operation, preservation, and restoration of the frank lloyd wright home and studio in oak park, illinois and frederick c. Robie house in chicago. During the year, the organization had 60,140 visitors to the home and studio and 28,636 visitors to the frederick c. Robie house in chicago. The organization's central administration, communication and development offices are located at the historic rookery building in downtown chicago. Its offices are adjacent to the building's frank lloyd wright designed lobby. The organization operates daily tours, social and fundraising events at this location. Total attendance at the rookery was 4,722 during the year. The organization also had tours of unity temple in oak park, with attendance of 5,997.total attendance for all locations was 99,495.
$2,377,160 spent$3,700,813 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,377,160.
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 $8.3M to $11M (+29%).
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 18% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Celeste Adams
President & CEO
Board chair
John Rafkin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $154k → $2.0M.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
59% 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 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 51% · 2022 53% · 2023 48% — 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
33% of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
55% of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $436k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$323k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$113k
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 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: 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 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST?
- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,637,664 to it, the largest being T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,100,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,637,664 in grants to FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST?
- T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST 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 40 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