Illinois · Nonprofit
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,870,761 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($5,725,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute does
Mission
Strategies, supporting organizations in community advocacy efforts; and holding conferences about economic and racial justice issues. We partner with community organizations, unions, on-line organizing groups,policy/research groups, digital activists, organizing network, and the public to move our work forward and help them become part of one large movement to dismantle structural discrimination and win resources and justice for communities of color and working class communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Programs include ways to reduce racial and economic inequality and promote economic and racial justice through public education, research and advocacy, training community organizations about economic and racial justice issues and advocacy strategies; supporting organizations in community advocacy efforts.
$3,079,260 spent$101,955 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,079,260.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.9M to $7.6M (+96%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 25 funders, grant income rose $100k → $4.0M.
14 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 59% · 2020 30% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 1 related entity
- Action Center on Race and The Economy · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute?
- Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,870,761 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($5,725,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $23,870,761 in grants to Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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