Illinois · Nonprofit
LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS
LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,595 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $662k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Arts does
Mission
The lizzadro museum of lapidary art's primary exempt purpose is to operate a museum of art for the collection, care, study, and exhibition of precious and non-precious gems, ceramics, and other objects of art, and the education of the public with reference to the museum's art collection, which consists of gemstones, dioramas, jade carvings, and various rock, minerals, and fossil specimens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The promotion of the lapidary art through special programs on the history and makeup of the museum. Over 72,415 children and adults visited the museum this year on site or through external or virtual programming. Every wednesday is free admission. The museum collaborates with community organizations to provide cultural and educational programs for the public. The museum displayed 3 temporary special exhibits: the first: synergy and symbiosis featured 12 collaborative jewelry creations by paula crevoshay and glenn lehrer from november 2, 2024 to april 27, 2025. Fan favorites was an exhibition of patron selected items from the museum's collection, open from may 10, 2025 to august 31, 2025. The hidden gems of cellphones explored the minerals which make up the different parts of mobile devices and included pieces on loan from the smithsonian institution's national museum of natural history. It was on display from october 19, 2025 to may 24, 2026.
$325,253 spent$417,505 earned by the program64% of program spendingThe museum staff operates a gift shop at the museum's facility, which affords visitors the opportunity to purchase books, literature, and lapidary replicas. The gift shop's inventory of lapidary specimens consists primarily of low-priced items which are representative facsimiles of the lapidary and related art objects displayed at the museum. The primary purpose of the gift shop facility is consistent with the underlying exempt purpose of the museum and thus is characterized as related business income for purposes of the museum's reporting requirements. See section 513 of the internal revenue code of 1954, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
$180,572 spent$184,971 earned by the program35% of program spendingTours and educational programs: the museum held 48 onsite weekend programs on educational subjects related to rocks and minerals, as well as live community music programs. Lectures and activities pertaining to the chinese collection and earth science programs are usually recorded and posted to our website's youtube channel, generating additional views.
$5,853 spent$3,035 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $511,678.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $3.9M to $4.4M (+12%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $175.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $180k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Joseph Lizzadro Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS’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
LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2019 54% · 2020 66% · 2021 74% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
88% of LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gratiot Lake Conservancy · exempt
- Joseph Lizzadro Family Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS?
- LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,595 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $106,595 in grants to LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIZZADRO MUSEUM OF LAPIDARY ARTS 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 2020–2025), 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