Illinois · Nonprofit
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,140,155 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,754,351). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $987k
What East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual does
Mission
Refugee immigrant rights advocacy & outreach programs, interpretation services, employment services, assistance with medical & housing for nonenglish speaking immigrant refugees coming to illinois
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization servces and advocates for all immigrants regardless of their background or status through translation and administrative services, education, and advocacy. The organization also helps immigrants get settled in central illinois and encourages the community to understand and embrace its new members.
$1,525,770 spentof which $436,928 as grants$10,105 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,525,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $321k to $1.0M (+213%).
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: 2019 67% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 89% · 2024 97% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Wilson
Executive director
Board chair
John Muirhead
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $91k → $408k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL’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
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 78% · 2022 73% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
97% of EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL: 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 EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL?
- EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,140,155 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,754,351). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $3,140,155 in grants to EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,754,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS REFUGEE MUTUAL 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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