Illinois · Nonprofit
EAGLE FORUM
EAGLE FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,750 to it, the largest being LYNN P DEMARCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATI0N ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $196k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Eagle Forum does
Mission
To educate, inform, instruct, and train the public on current local and national events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote social welfare, conduct educational conferences and seminars, and defend women's rights.
$290,443 spent$22,104 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $290,443.
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 2021 to 2022, from $749k to $3.1M (+310%).
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.
48% of EAGLE FORUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Anne Schlafly
Chairman and treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $100.
From the IRS filings of EAGLE FORUM’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
EAGLE FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 EAGLE FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 58% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
EAGLE FORUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
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.
Against its field
EAGLE FORUM is better cushioned than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EAGLE FORUM
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Eagle Forum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAGLE FORUM: 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 EAGLE FORUM?
- EAGLE FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,750 to it, the largest being LYNN P DEMARCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATI0N ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAGLE FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $62,750 in grants to EAGLE FORUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAGLE FORUM?
- LYNN P DEMARCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATI0N is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAGLE FORUM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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