Illinois · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION
EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,081 to it, the largest being EUGENE & RUTH FREEDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($441,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,155 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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.
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared funders
- Looking Above and Beyond Incportfolio match
- Frank S Nicoll Jr and Joanne M Nicoll Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $200k → $25k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $202k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easter Seals Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION’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
EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 99% · 2020 54% · 2021 96% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% — 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
20% of EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared fundersPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Looking Above and Beyond Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank S Nicoll Jr and Joanne M Nicoll Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tesseraportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roles Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coopersmith Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jane Ellen Murray Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dormie Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leela and Murali D Atluru Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Treasury Management Assoc of New Yorkportfolio 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 EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Easter Seals Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION: 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 EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION?
- EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,081 to it, the largest being EUGENE & RUTH FREEDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($441,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $543,081 in grants to EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION?
- EUGENE & RUTH FREEDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $441,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 12funders 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