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AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION

EIN 45-4206354 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$3,421,080
Expenses 2024
$3,868,219

Program services were 97.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W70
Classification
1200
Street
300 S RIVERSIDE PLZ STE 1625

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

8 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1625). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION IMPROVES THE LIVES OF AMERICANS BY EQUIPPING COMMUNITY LEADERS, ACTIVISTS AND POLICY MAKERS WITH STRATEGIC INSIGHTS AND PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS THAT ADVANCE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND FREE-MARKET ENTERPRISE.

  • EQUIPPING COMMUNITY LEADERS, ACTIVISTS AND POLICY MAKERS WITH STRATEGIC INSIGHTS AND PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS THAT ADVANCE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND FREE-MARKET ENTERPRISE.

    Expenses $3,770,862 · Grants $146,877

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Tillman

    CHAIRMAN AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Miller

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Manske

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dick Weiss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,421,080
    Expenses
    $3,868,219
    Contributions
    $3,421,080
    Grants paid
    $146,877
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,999,687
    Expenses
    $1,730,413
    Contributions
    $1,999,687
    Grants paid
    $217,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $695,756
    Expenses
    $689,794
    Contributions
    $695,756
    Grants paid
    $15,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $614,195
    Expenses
    $622,216
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,575

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,008
    Expenses
    $357,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,686

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $70,000
    Expenses
    $112,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,999

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
John M Tillman
Mailing address
190 S LASALLE ST NO 1500CHICAGO IL 606033470
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • BEARING TREE INC.

    $50,000 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $49,000 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2011, reinstated 15 January 2012.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.