Illinois · Nonprofit
Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship
Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,626 to it, the largest being Grand Victoria Foundation ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship does
Mission
The Adelante Centers mission is to create wealth in distressed communities through entrepreneurship, living-wage job creation, and community development. We focus exclusively on developing programs and projects that benefit Lake County and the surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
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 $33k to $95k (+183%).
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 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $178k → $186k.
1 of 8 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 Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,423 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,423 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Government funding Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.1M
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 Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship: 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 Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship?
- Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,626 to it, the largest being Grand Victoria Foundation ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $886,626 in grants to Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship?
- Grand Victoria Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 8 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