Illinois · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS
ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($41,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $907k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $558k
What Advocates for Access does
Mission
To empower people with disabilities to live independently in our community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy, peer counseling, information and referral, independent livingskills training and public education for persons with disabilities toassist with independent living.
$799,758 spent85% of program spendingTraining of personal assistants for persons with disabilities andreferral of personal assistants to persons with disabilities.Independent living services for youth with disabilities.Activities and costs associated with transitioning persons withdisabilities from nursing homes to independent living.
$137,383 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $937,141.
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 2022 to 2023, from $588k to $1.2M (+111%).
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 91% · 2021 83% · 2022 82% · 2023 50% · 2024 72% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $251k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$251k
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 ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS: 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 ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS?
- ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being GILMORE FOUNDATION ($41,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41,000 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS?
- GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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