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BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN

BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,781 to it, the largest being BLH FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$473k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$144k
Net assets
$94k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Brotherhood for the Fallen does

Mission

Attend the services of police officers killed by an offender and to provide support to their families, their police department and their community.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants provided to families of officers killed in the line of duty

    $0 spentof which $123,970 as grants
    0% of program spending
  2. None

    $0 spentof which $123,970 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,970. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($216k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2020 Revenue 61 ($130k) Expenses 59 ($128k) Net assets 151 ($129k)2021 Revenue 298 ($633k) Expenses 273 ($587k) Net assets 221 ($189k)2022 Revenue 181 ($384k) Expenses 196 ($422k) Net assets 159 ($136k)2023 Revenue 223 ($473k) Expenses 212 ($458k) Net assets 111 ($94k)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (223)Expenses (212)Net assets (111)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 2020 to 2021, from $129k to $189k (+46%).

$85k
$129k
$189k
$136k
$94k
20192020202120222023
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’19
$2k
’20
$45k
’21
−$38k
’22
$16k
’23
1.7
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.

20192020202120222023
Listed44444
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $27k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN’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

BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 72% · 2022 90% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.

IL
CA
UT
DE
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,493 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,493 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN

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

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 22%Fundraising 51%

Governance

225
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN?
BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,781 to it, the largest being BLH FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $143,781 in grants to BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN?
BLH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 11 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