Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council
Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,769 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($11,492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $549k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $556k
What Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council does
Mission
EFBC exists to help entrepreneur, family businesses, and other closely held companies achieve their business goals through a unique peer support system and related educational programs that provide growth strategies for chief executives, their employees, their families, and their businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
THE ORGANIZATION OPERATES TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR FAMILY, CLOSELY HELD, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS THROUGH ACTIVITIES WHICH INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PEER-TO-PEER FORUM GROUPS, ENCOURAGEMENT OF STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INVOLVEMENT, RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FAMILY BUSINESS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.FORUMS - Forums are the heartbeat of EFBC. These groups give EFBC members a chance to share their business, family and personal experiences with one another in a confidential setting. Your forum is a place where youre not expected to have all the answers. Instead, your forum gives you the opportunity to draw on the experience and perspectives of fellow members to make the best choices for you and your business.EFBC offers forums for CEOs and business leaders, bringing a variety of entrepreneurs together in informal settings. After speaking with new members about their goals, EFBC selects forums for them that best suit their needs. Each forum is capped at nine members, and each participant comes from a different industry to create a diverse and rich set of perspectives within the group.Members that participate in a forum commit to…
$522,426 spent$601,201 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $522,426.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $801k to $620k (−23%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $32 → $12k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council’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
Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
70% 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 Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
70% of Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council: 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 Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council?
- Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,769 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($11,492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,769 in grants to Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council?
- FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,492 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Family Business Council Inc DBA Entrepreneur and Family Business Council 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 3 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