Illinois · Nonprofit
Peoria Riverfront Museum
Peoria Riverfront Museum (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,831,541 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($1,379,150). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Peoria Riverfront Museum does
Mission
To inspire lifelong learning for all, connecting art, history, science and achievement through collections, exhibitions, and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions/Memberships/Museum Shop: The Peoria Riverfront Museum provides art, science, history and achievement exhibitions, activities and programs in five main galleries, dispersed cases, and outdoor sculpture areas to display temporary and long-term exhibits. On an annual basis, the museum serves 162,909 visitors onsite and 1,000 through outreach programs and records more than 30,00,000 website and social media engagements
$4,229,718 spent$1,160,380 earned by the program94% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$215,346 spent5% of program spendingGiant Screen Theater: The Peoria Riverfront Museum includes a Giant Screen Theater. The content presented in the Giant Screen Theater is reviewed by the museum's Programs staff to help ensure that it supports the mission of the museum. The content includes documentaries made for a giant screen, films that enhance current exhibitions, and classic or second-run movies that meet the mission and take full advantage of the giant screen's technical capabilities. Revenue includes Concession sales.
$53,124 spent$111,592 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,498,188.
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 $15M to $13M (−16%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 145% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 17% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of Peoria Riverfront Museum’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. 7 of the last 9 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
John Morris
President & CEO
Board chair
Todd Baker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $91k → $1.6M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $93k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Heart of Illinois United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Peoria Riverfront Museum raised.
From the IRS filings of Peoria Riverfront Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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 Riverfront Museum has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 25% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 32% — broadly stable.
“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
74% of Peoria Riverfront Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
80% of Peoria Riverfront Museum's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Peoria Riverfront Museum is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Peoria Riverfront Museum
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
67% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science · exempt
- Peoria Riverfront Museum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Peoria Riverfront Museum: 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 Riverfront Museum?
- Peoria Riverfront Museum (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,831,541 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($1,379,150). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Peoria Riverfront Museum have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $7,831,541 in grants to Peoria Riverfront Museum, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Peoria Riverfront Museum?
- GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,379,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Peoria Riverfront Museum 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 38 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