Illinois · Nonprofit
The Richard H Driehaus Museum
The Richard H Driehaus Museum (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,324,140 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($14,777,110). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $105M
What The Richard H Driehaus Museum does
Mission
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions are presented in an immersive experience within the restored nickerson mansion, completed in 1883, at the height of the gilded age, and the 1926 murphy auditorium. The museum's collection reflects and is inspired by the collecting interests, vision, and focus of its founder, the late richard h. Driehaus.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Driehaus Museum shares its collection widely with the general public through exhibitions, loans and public programs. In 2024, the Museum presented exhibitions such as "Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective". Also in 2024, the Museum hosted approximately 100 special public events such as lectures, exhibition opening events, a gala, film screenings, performances and public tours. The Museum continues to put its mission into service through its daily activities which are available to all visitors.
$4,450,333 spent$607,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,450,333.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $50M to $116M (+133%).
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: 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of The Richard H Driehaus Museum’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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
Lisa Key
Executive Director
Board chair
Zachary Lazar
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $3.1M.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Richard H Driehaus 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
The Richard H Driehaus Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Richard H Driehaus Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 81% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of The Richard H Driehaus Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
97% of The Richard H Driehaus Museum'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 $444k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The Richard H Driehaus Museum has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Richard H Driehaus Museum receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Richard H Driehaus 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
16%
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 4 related entities
- Richard H Driehaus Foundation · exempt
- RIchard H Driehaus Art Exhib Lending FDN · exempt
- Driehaus Enterprise Management Inc · corp_trust
- Driehaus Trust Company · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Richard H Driehaus Museum?
- The Richard H Driehaus Museum (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,324,140 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($14,777,110). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Richard H Driehaus Museum have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $15,324,140 in grants to The Richard H Driehaus Museum, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Richard H Driehaus Museum?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $14,777,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Richard H Driehaus 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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