Illinois · Nonprofit
CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND
CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MANSUETO FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $262k
What Change Illinois Action Fund does
Mission
Change Illinois Action Fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen participation, lack of government transparency, unethical lobbying, and politically-motivate redistricting.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Change Illinois Action Fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elctions, decreased citizen participation, lack of government transparency, unethical lobbying, and politically-motivate redistricting.
$15,566 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,566.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $356k to $224k (−37%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Ryan Tolley
Executive director
Board chair
Bethany Jaeger
Board chair/secretary
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Organizations like CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Change Illinois · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND?
- CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MANSUETO FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND?
- MANSUETO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANGE ILLINOIS ACTION FUND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 1 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