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ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP

ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,373,895 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($2,725,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.9M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$6.5M
47/62 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Advance Illinois Nfp does

Mission

Advance illinois was founded in 2008 as an independent policy and advocacy organization that works toward a heathy public education system that prepares students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life. Advance illinois is committed to an aligned education system that stives for equity, stresses college and career readiness and completion, and supports the whole child from the earliest years through adulthood.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Develop data-informed policies to support student success; build leadership, community partnerships, and coalitions of advocates, and elevate the education narrative with the goal of furthering equity, in order to:- recruit, develop, and empower the most effective educators,- set world-class expectations and provide essential supports, and- empower local innovation in exchange for accountability and results.

    $2,312,132 spent$12,102 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,312,132.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 156 ($3.3M) Expenses 102 ($2.4M) Net assets 149 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 127 ($2.6M) Expenses 105 ($2.5M) Net assets 158 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 172 ($3.6M) Expenses 104 ($2.5M) Net assets 225 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 145 ($3.0M) Expenses 116 ($2.8M) Net assets 242 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 262 ($5.5M) Expenses 112 ($2.7M) Net assets 408 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 134 ($2.8M) Expenses 123 ($2.9M) Net assets 402 ($6.7M)2024 Revenue 137 ($2.9M) Expenses 130 ($3.1M) Net assets 388 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (130)Net assets (388)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $7.4M (+76%).

$1.9M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$3.9M
$4.2M
$7.4M
$7.2M
$6.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$289k
’17
$823k
’18
$143k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$288k
’21
$2.8M
’22
−$122k
’23
−$217k
’24
5.5
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed212831273029
Joined·+9+4+2+6+7
No longer listed·21638
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $315k → $2.7M.

11 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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

ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

27% 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 ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP.

16%
largest funder
35%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 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

56% of ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

57% of ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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MN
IL
MA
WY
IN
NE
MD
DE
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP?
ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,373,895 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($2,725,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $17,373,895 in grants to ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP?
THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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