Illinois · Nonprofit
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,181 to it, the largest being The Scripps Research Institute ($1,776,181). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Incshared funders
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio match
- Institute for Healthcare Improvementportfolio 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.
0% of BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $111k.
From the IRS filings of BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
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.
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Incshared fundersMA · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Healthcare Improvementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Jude Children's Research Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Medical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Management Partners Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Siemens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Reminger Foundation Companyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Decker Weiss Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Committee of 100 Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nuance Foundation 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 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Health Services Foundation · exempt
- Bc and Bs Foundation on Health Care · exempt
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefit Corp · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION: 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 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION?
- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,181 to it, the largest being The Scripps Research Institute ($1,776,181). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,795,181 in grants to BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION?
- The Scripps Research Institute is the largest funder on record, with $1,776,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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