Illinois · Nonprofit
COLES TOGETHER
COLES TOGETHER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $94,491 to it, the largest being EFFINGHAM REGIONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE ($94,491). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $586k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Coles Together does
Mission
Coles Together promotes the improvement, diversification, and growth of the economic base of the coles county illinois area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Coles Together promotes the improvement,diversification, and growth of the economic base of the coles county illinois area.
To provide economic development.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $2.5M (−24%).
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: 2017 42% · 2018 7% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 58% · 2024 44%. 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 8 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $35k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $258k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center). These are real filings, and they are not money COLES TOGETHER raised.
From the IRS filings of COLES TOGETHER’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 COLES TOGETHER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 COLES TOGETHER
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLES TOGETHER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLES TOGETHER?
- COLES TOGETHER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $94,491 to it, the largest being EFFINGHAM REGIONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE ($94,491). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLES TOGETHER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $94,491 in grants to COLES TOGETHER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLES TOGETHER?
- EFFINGHAM REGIONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $94,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLES TOGETHER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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