Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,669 to it, the largest being MURPHY SURGERY & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH TRUST ($194,490). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- George E& Betty Bdutton Foundationlocal
- The NBK Foundationportfolio match
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio 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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $7.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY’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
MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 312 organizations that share them.
- George E& Betty Bdutton FoundationlocalIN · funds 14 organizations near you
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David B Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pyle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nebraska Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ANTONIA FOUNDATION INCco F MICHAEL ARNOWportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The C Robert Brenton and Babette C Breportfolio 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.
Organizations like MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: 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 MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY?
- MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,669 to it, the largest being MURPHY SURGERY & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH TRUST ($194,490). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $243,669 in grants to MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY?
- MURPHY SURGERY & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $194,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 7funders 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