Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,820 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $187k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What National Museum of Gospel Music does
Mission
The National Museum of Gospel Music will inspire people of all ages to learn more about gospel music and its contributions to the foundation of American music culture through its exhibitions and programs. The National Museum of Gospel Music will be known for its commitment to understanding the richness of gospel music as reflected in our past, present, and future by providing learning experiences for children and adults. The role gospel music has played in the fight for freedom as well as an ambassador of goodwill around the world. The museum will seek to cross ethnic groups to present the historical importance of this musical genre as the Peoples' Music of faith, hopes, and dreams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Limited Museum operations and online programming during post-Covid and construction phase. -
$70,796 spentof which $33,900 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,796.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $113k to $2.3M (+1918%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 77% · 2022 11% · 2023 97% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Antoinette D Wright
President and Executive Director
Board chair
Donald Jackson
Founder and Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $38k → $17k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC’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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2023 91% — 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
25% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC: 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC?
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,820 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $186,820 in grants to NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GOSPEL MUSIC 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 2019–2024), 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