Illinois · Nonprofit
JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM
JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $675 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($675). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Will Countylocal
- Indiana Humanities Council Incportfolio match
- Humanities Iowaportfolio match
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.
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 68% · 2018 60% · 2019 36% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 48% · 2023 59% · 2024 85% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $625.
Left out of every figure on this page: $39k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Will County). These are real filings, and they are not money JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM’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.
Where its funders are
JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Will CountylocalIL · funds 53 organizations near you
- Indiana Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Coalition of Sites of Conscienceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
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 JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $675 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($675). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $675 in grants to JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM 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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing