Illinois · Nonprofit
UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION
UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,024,374 to it, the largest being TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND ($1,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $172k
What Unity Temple Restoration Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation (utrf), founded in 1973, is to restore and preserve frank lloyd wright's masterpiece, educating the local, national and international guests about architectural concepts, while advancing awareness of frank lloyd wright's contribution to modern architecture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization went dormant as of 1/1/24 ceasing all programming and fundraising activities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The foundation continued fundraising for building preservation and production of public programming.
$10,968 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,968.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $661k to $1.5M (+124%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 54% · 2022 3% · 2023 34% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Heidi Ruehle
Executive director
Board chair
Laura Thompson
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $112k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION 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
UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 67% — 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
20% of UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION?
- UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,024,374 to it, the largest being TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND ($1,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,024,374 in grants to UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION?
- TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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