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JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION
JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,964 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($109,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $393k
- Net assets
- $23M
What John R and Eleanor R Mitchell Foundation does
Mission
To generate awareness, understanding, participation, enjoyment, and support for hte arts in mt. Vernon, southern illinois and the surrounding region, through the presentation of diverse exhibitions and arts-rich programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Presentation of visual arts - at its core, the museum's permanent collection centers around late 19th and 20th century paintings by notable ashcan school artists that were collected and donated by museum founders john and eleanor mitchell. Four additional galleries showcase temporary exhibitions by regional artists, including several competition exhibitions intended for high school students, semi-, and professional artists living and working in the midwest. The museum also boasts a contemporary outdoor sculpture park with 60 large-scale artworks spread over an 80-acre campus.
$198,860 spent$81,661 earned by the program21% of program spendingArts education- a school performing arts series presents live performances, and volunteer docents provided tours and facilitate hands-on art activities for area schoolchildren. Staff also travel throughout the region to deliver art reach lessons directly to the classroom. The beck family center and interactive learning stations make the museum a field trip and family destination year-round. Also available to the public, cedarhurst's on-site shrode art center offers hands-on classes and learning opportunities that serve ages 1.5 to 100. Open studio space encourages ongoing practice and instruction in the creative arts.
$206,861 spent$183,340 earned by the program22% of program spendingPresentation of performing arts- the cedarhurst concert series is one of the museums longest running programs and presents classical and world music by professionally trained and touring artists. The more casual, thursday night live series features outdoor performances by regional musicians each week during the summer months.
$56,086 spent$101,680 earned by the program6% of program spendingStrengthening communitites through the arts - the museum presents diverse special events and community programs that connect people to the arts. Examples are plentiful: the trendy, upcycled fashion show challenged participants to make wearable garments out of nontraditional materials, while the high-end edible exhibition showcased the culinary arts, using food to raise awareness about the museum's art collection. The well-known cedarhurst art and craft fair feautred nearly 100 vendors who sold their handmade wares during the casual, festival weekend. The lights: an exibition of holiday magic is the museum's largest special event, presenting an artful display of christmas lights along a 1-mile walking path through the sculpture park. The program spans six weekends during the holiday season and severs as the backdrop for other speical events like the annual christmas vendor market.
$500,253 spent52% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $962,060.
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.
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 $22M to $20M (−9%).
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 0% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% · 2024 7% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $55k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION’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
JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 50% · 2020 62% · 2021 35% · 2022 46% · 2023 36% — 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
40% of JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
67% of JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION
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
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION?
- JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,964 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($109,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $392,964 in grants to JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $109,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION 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 8 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