Illinois · Nonprofit
CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY
CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,112 to it, the largest being THE MORTON ARBORETUM ($13,144). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Metropolitan Mayors Caucusshared funders
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio match
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY’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
CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
95% 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 CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY'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.
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.
- Metropolitan Mayors Caucusshared fundersIL · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- WD Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Farmland Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruda Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covington Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Trail Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY?
- CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,112 to it, the largest being THE MORTON ARBORETUM ($13,144). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,112 in grants to CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY?
- THE MORTON ARBORETUM is the largest funder on record, with $13,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVE LAKE COUNTY 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3funders 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