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AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)
AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,389,874 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,105,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Healthy Communities Foundationshared funderslocal
- Chicagoland Chamber of Commerceportfolio match
- Agesmart Community Resourcesportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 91% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $202k → $625k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 66% · 2020 67% · 2021 31% · 2022 39% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Healthy Communities Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 129 organizations near you
- Chicagoland Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agesmart Community Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Central Il Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Trust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Endeavor Health Clinical Operationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historyshared funderslocalIL · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you
- Cuore e Mani Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- WP & HB White Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.0M
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 AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING): 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 AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)?
- AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,389,874 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,105,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,389,874 in grants to AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING), 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING)?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,105,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22funders 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