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AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,020 to it, the largest being Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 792 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 792 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio match
- Public Interest Law Initiativeshared funders
- Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20 → $10k.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio matchIL · funds 174 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Public Interest Law Initiativeshared fundersIL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Southern Communities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Stewardship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- March for Our Lives Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Springboard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acclivus Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,020 to it, the largest being Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,020 in grants to AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AMEICAN FAMILY RESEARCH 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing