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PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,129 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$640k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$176k
Net assets
$1.1M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Peoria Historical Society does

Mission

Preserve the history of central illinos and to promote this history through education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Flanagan & pettengill-morron house mueseums - maintenance of historic homes, historical tours of the peoria area, research & education assistance with area musuems and community

    $131,105 spent$150,063 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $131,105.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($163k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($368k)2018 Revenue 110 ($180k) Expenses 136 ($169k) Net assets 100 ($368k)2019 Revenue 130 ($211k) Expenses 159 ($198k) Net assets 108 ($397k)2020 Revenue 94 ($154k) Expenses 130 ($161k) Net assets 107 ($394k)2021 Revenue 229 ($374k) Expenses 140 ($174k) Net assets 167 ($616k)2022 Revenue 149 ($243k) Expenses 147 ($183k) Net assets 176 ($647k)2023 Revenue 158 ($258k) Expenses 174 ($216k) Net assets 186 ($684k)2024 Revenue 137 ($223k) Expenses 188 ($233k) Net assets 183 ($673k)2025 Revenue 393 ($640k) Expenses 193 ($240k) Net assets 286 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (393)Expenses (193)Net assets (286)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $675k to $1.1M (+56%).

$370k
$370k
$399k
$411k
$618k
$649k
$685k
$675k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
$11k
’18
$14k
’19
−$7k
’20
$200k
’21
$60k
’22
$42k
’23
−$11k
’24
$400k
’25
12
months of
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

Elizabeth Klise

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed212325222426272522
Joined·+2+5+4+8+4+7+3+6
No longer listed·03762659
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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

PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62%
largest funder
76%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 83% · 2019 78% · 2020 65% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 50% — 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

50% of PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

89% of PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
CA
MO
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,129 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $176,129 in grants to PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 16 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