Illinois · Nonprofit
THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $132k
What The Ida B Wells Memorial Foundation does
Programs
Rust college scholarship funding for ida b wells scholarship
$6,000 spentIda b wells memorial program expenses and exhibits
$2,423 spentIda b wells memorial museum donation
$0 spentIda b wells garden donation
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
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 $36k to $103k (+190%).
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.
Board chair
Michelle Duster
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’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
THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
50% 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 THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
50% of THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation 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 THE IDA B WELLS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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