Illinois · Nonprofit
PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY
PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,031 to it, the largest being FABYAN FOUNDATION ($119,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $353k
What Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley does
Mission
To offer heritage education and to promote the appreciation and preservation of the fox valley's rich architectural and historical resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fabyan villa museum and japanese garden: approximately 11,000 visitors annually. The fabyan villa museum shares the history of the historic riverbank estate founded by colonel george fabyan and his wife, nelle. The fabyans and the staff of over 100 individuals spearheaded advancements in animal husbandry, acoustics, plant cultivation, and the development of modern code-breaking, which changed the course of both world wars and led to the creation of the nsa. The japanese garden shares the tradition of gardening in japanese culture with visitors from all over the world.
$83,776 spent$28,469 earned by the program52% of program spendingDurant-peterson house and sholes school museums: approximately 4,000 visitors annually. The durant-peterson house and sholes school museum share what life was like for pioneers in the mid-to-late 19th century in illinois, with a focus on the lives of children at the time. Costumed docents bring visitors back in time to experience the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the time. Over 1,500 students visit the museums on school field trips annually.
$63,829 spent$8,110 earned by the program40% of program spendingBeith house: approximately 1,000 visitors annually. The beith house is home to preservation partners, inviting the community to appreciate the shared history of the tri-city communities of batavia, geneva, and st. Charles, illinois. From the beith house, we engage with members of the public, sharing the importance of history with visitors, homeowners, building owners, and more. Visitors learn how to identify, restore, and rehabilitate local historic structures.
$11,969 spent$6,563 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,574.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $327k to $382k (+17%).
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: 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Kelsey Shipton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $16k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY’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
PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Organizations like PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY?
- PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,031 to it, the largest being FABYAN FOUNDATION ($119,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $145,031 in grants to PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY?
- FABYAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $119,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESERVATION PARTNERS OF THE FOX VALLEY 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.
Play a game about who funds Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley →
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 5 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