Illinois · Nonprofit
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,636 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($305,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Historic Pullman Foundation Dba Friends of Pullman does
Mission
Serves as the official non-profit partner of Pullman Historical National Park, providing support as needed, including historic property restoration & preservation and public awareness in Pullmans rich history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Serves as the official non-profit partner of pullman national historical park, providing support as needed. This may include to acquire, sell, preserve, restore, and rehab architectural, historic, or environmentally important properties in the original town of pullman and to engage in educational efforts to inform the general public of the history of the pullman area.
$713,455 spent$49,572 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $713,455.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.3M (+47%).
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: 2017 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $256k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN’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
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
63% 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 HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 78% — 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
50% of HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $511k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN runs a healthier operating margin 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 HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$965k
- Department of Commerce$130k
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 HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN?
- HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,636 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($305,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,206,636 in grants to HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN 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 17 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