Illinois · Nonprofit
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,994 to it, the largest being THE BEHR FOUNDATION ($433,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Rydell Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxlocalportfolio match
- D a O Foundationlocalportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 4% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 43% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $270k → $121k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM’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
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 44% · 2019 52% · 2020 57% · 2021 51% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% — 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
64% of ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rydell Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchIL · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxlocalportfolio matchIL · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- D a O Foundationlocalportfolio matchIL · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Rock River Valleyshared funderslocalIL · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- SwedishAmerican Health FoundationlocalIL · funds 24 organizations near you
- The Mill FoundationlocalIL · funds 25 organizations near you
- Kiwanis Charities of Rockford InclocalIL · funds 18 organizations near you
- Javon Bea HospitallocalIL · funds 19 organizations near you
- William Howard Charitable TrustlocalIL · funds 14 organizations near you
- Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable TrustlocalIL · funds 26 organizations near you
- Guy Reno Family FoundationlocalWI · funds 28 organizations near you
- Tracy E Anderson Charitable FoundationlocalIL · funds 36 organizations near you
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 ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 ROCKFORD ART 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.
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 ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM?
- ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,994 to it, the largest being THE BEHR FOUNDATION ($433,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,064,994 in grants to ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM?
- THE BEHR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $433,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKFORD ART 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.
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 23funders 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