Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER
MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,179 to it, the largest being BERGSTROM INC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXXXX2008 ($490,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Midway Village & Museum Center does
Mission
Midway village, the best institution for collecting, preserving and interpreting the history of the rockford region, is committed to educating and enriching our community by providing state of the art exhibits, programs, and events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Midway village collects, preserves and interprets the history of the rockford region and is committed to educating and enriching our community by providing state of the art exhibits, programs, and events. Set on a picturesque, 137-acre campus, midway village is home to over 100,000 artifacts dating back to the 1830s; when rockford was founded. The village hosts many history themed programs and events for all ages covering time periods from early pioneer settlement through world war ii. Our staff pride themselves in providing quality history programs that are interactive and hands-on whenever possible to interpret the rich history of rockford and the northern illinois region.
$1,360,882 spent$129,216 earned by the program97% of program spendingOne of the largest educational program events is world war ii days which includes elaborate and realistic battles complete with tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, and exciting pyrotechnic displays. This event is the largest world war ii era re-enactment in the united states with over 1,000 uniformed re-enactors from 40 states representing soldiers from the united states, great britain, france, poland, ukraine, russia, japan, italy and germany along with 70 to 80 vintage tanks, halftracks and other 1940s era military vehicles. Visitors experience, elaborate 1940s displays in historical buildings on the museum property acting as the back drop of a european village during world war ii, encampments of allied and axis troops in the midway village woods and realistic skirmishes integrated in the historic village, pacific theater battles in the woods with soldiers dressed as u.s. Marines and japanese infantry, german cavalry scenes, and soldiers base camps filled with period vehicles, tents and artifacts.
$45,682 spent$122,482 earned by the program3% of program spendingCivil war hands on history program is an award-winning educational event specially designed to meet the curriculum standards for students in grades 5th through 8th. Midway village museums campus makes this an exceptional field trip destination with more than 25 historic buildings and from 40 to 50 different living history sites offered each day. The program is open to private or home schools from northern illinois and southern wisconsin. Students can meet famous people like president & mrs. Lincoln, frederick douglass, clara barton, general u. S. Grant and many others, experience being a soldier, including marching and drilling, operate civil war era artillery, visit the 1850s barn to learn about the underground railroad, take school lessons in a one room schoolhouse, learn about the art of blacksmithing, and experience many other lifestyles and careers during that era.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,406,564.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+26%).
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: 2023 30% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Mike Crandall
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $26k → $78k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER’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
MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
39% 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 MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 60% · 2019 85% · 2020 71% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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
45% of MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
98% of MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k 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
MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER?
- MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,179 to it, the largest being BERGSTROM INC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXXXX2008 ($490,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,111,179 in grants to MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER?
- BERGSTROM INC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXXXX2008 is the largest funder on record, with $490,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing