Illinois · Nonprofit
JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC
JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,641 to it, the largest being JAMES MILLIKIN TRUST A ($113,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $173k
What James Millikin Homestead Inc does
Mission
Operation of historic home owned by local university - home museum, art, historic preservation, regional history
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
All third-grade school classes are invited to field trip to the museum home of mr. & mrs. Millikin built in 1876. The event is held over a two-week span. One school is permitted in the home at a time. There is a scripted program with characters dressed in period costumes. Children meet mr. Millikin, the piano tuner, the maid, the kitchen help, and finally mrs. Millikin. Children are encouraged to ask questions and given opportunity to work small art projects or do rubbings of coins and other artifacts on to tracing paper. The entire passage is through the rooms, listening to stories, questions, artwork, and a snack. We provide grant opportunities for teachers to obtain funds for the cost of busing. Last year we had 750 students come through the house.
$1,208 spent51% of program spendingWinter culture & poetry at the homestead gives opportunities for citizens to be exposed to the arts for a minimal entry fee of 10. Both poets and musicians partake in this winter sunday afternoon event. We had 63 attendees.
$614 spent26% of program spendingIn addition to our holiday open house, we have a display of a variety of nativity sets for viewing. The 1875 home decorated for the holiday in a period appropriate traditional decorations. People came to view the 1890's decorations and nativity sets with cookies and punch. We had 56 attendees over a 2 day period.
Annual meeting - 20 attendees - 349 christmas open house - 57 attendees - 208 historic preservation week open house - 39 attendees plein air colony artist - 20 attendees cookies & carols - 155 attendees
$557 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,379.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $116k to $200k (+72%).
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.
73% of JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $2k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD 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
JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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% · 2018 55% · 2019 71% · 2020 94% · 2021 52% · 2022 83% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD 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. $11k 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.
Against its field
JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC?
- JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,641 to it, the largest being JAMES MILLIKIN TRUST A ($113,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $172,641 in grants to JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC?
- JAMES MILLIKIN TRUST A is the largest funder on record, with $113,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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