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CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)

CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,647 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,810,889). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$4.1M
Grants received
$982k
Net assets
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($639k) Expenses 100 ($614k) Net assets 100 ($381k)2020 Revenue 149 ($951k) Expenses 145 ($893k) Net assets 115 ($440k)2021 Revenue 219 ($1.4M) Expenses 162 ($995k) Net assets 221 ($842k)2022 Revenue 197 ($1.3M) Expenses 191 ($1.2M) Net assets 244 ($928k)2023 Revenue 193 ($1.2M) Expenses 213 ($1.3M) Net assets 224 ($854k)2024 Revenue 392 ($2.5M) Expenses 404 ($2.5M) Net assets 230 ($876k)2025 Revenue 548 ($3.5M) Expenses 553 ($3.4M) Net assets 258 ($982k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (548)Expenses (553)Net assets (258)

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 25% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
17
$58k
20
$402k
21
$86k
22
$74k
23
$22k
24
$107k
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $120k → $471k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)4% 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 CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)’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

CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION).

44%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 56% · 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 33% · 2022 53% · 2023 51%diversifying over time.

“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 CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)'s grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
MO
TX

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. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION): 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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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 CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)?
CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,647 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,810,889). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,122,647 in grants to CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION), 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION)?
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,810,889 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) 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 21funders 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