Illinois · Nonprofit
THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS
THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,350 to it, the largest being AMHERST F HARDY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Thinkwell Makerspace Innovations does
Mission
At our core, our goal is to help to unlock a full potential through problem solving, discovery, and skill-building. Layering skills and abilities in a way that inspires creativity will help the community build a greater capacity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The program teaches basic life and problem-solving skills othrough innovative methods, helping individuals adapt and overcome challenges. The program also provides public access to tools, materials, facilities, and resources. Additionally, it engages in educational outreach through public events or events created and sponsored by the organization.
$169,267 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $169,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $44k to $112k (+153%).
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS’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
THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
35% 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 THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS.
“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
95% of THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Organizations like THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS?
- THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,350 to it, the largest being AMHERST F HARDY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $62,350 in grants to THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS?
- AMHERST F HARDY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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