Illinois · Nonprofit
Citizen Action Illinois
Citizen Action Illinois (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,329 to it, the largest being Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund ($228,029). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $637k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $710k
- Net assets
- $332k
What Citizen Action Illinois does
Mission
CA/I organizes, advocates and builds coalitions to win support for progressive policies that improve the lives of all Illinoisans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1. Educating the public and advocacy on healthcare issues and issues for senior citizens.2. Educating the public and advocacy on judicial rights, consumer protections, public safety, environmental protection and voting rights.
$422,791 spentof which $10,000 as grants$15,431 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $422,791.
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 2020 to 2021, from $164k to $237k (+44%).
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.
110% of Citizen Action Illinois’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Patrick Keenan Devlin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $45k → $66k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $173k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Service Employees International Illinois Council). These are real filings, and they are not money Citizen Action Illinois raised.
From the IRS filings of Citizen Action Illinois’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
Citizen Action Illinois leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Citizen Action Illinois.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 23% — 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
43% of Citizen Action Illinois's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
74% of Citizen Action Illinois's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Citizen Action Illinois runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Citizen Action Illinois
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizen Action Illinois: 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 Citizen Action Illinois?
- Citizen Action Illinois (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,329 to it, the largest being Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund ($228,029). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizen Action Illinois have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $710,329 in grants to Citizen Action Illinois, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizen Action Illinois?
- Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund is the largest funder on record, with $228,029 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizen Action Illinois 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing