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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $675
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Joliet Area Historical Museum does
Mission
Promote awareness of and appreciation for the area's history and diverse culture, and encourage people of all ages to discover, understand and celebrate the area's heritage and boundless future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The museum continues to achieve and grow in local and international awareness. The museum continues to encourage people of all ages to discover, understand and celebrate the area's heritage and boundless future.
$915,440 spent$73,977 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe old joliet prison project involved the museum taking day-to-day responsibility for tours at the former illinois state penitentiary site after years of assessing feasibility and determining great public interest in the historic site. These tours have offered a new and vibrant revenue stream to underwrite organizational operations. The museum has also committed to holding occassional special events to raise funds specifically to be used to secure and stabilize the property as to further monetize it. The museum executed a memorandum of understanding with the city of joliet, who acts as an unencumbered lessee at the site, owned by the state of illinois, which outlines specific roles and responsibilies.
$386,934 spent$591,436 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,302,374.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $6.2M (+309%).
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 (63% 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
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
Gregory Peerbolte
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
Against its field
JOLIET AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM 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 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
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
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.
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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.
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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 1 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