Illinois · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS INC
EASTER SEALS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 308 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,637,888 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,045,550). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 308
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Easter Seals Inc does
Mission
Easterseals empowers people so they can thrive. We make a lasting difference in the lives of 1.5 million people each year by providing essential services to children and adults with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and their families. (see schedule o continuation)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program development: funding, leadership, and assistance to provide services for children and adults with autism and other disabilities. Primary services are medical rehabilitation, job training and employment, inclusive childcare, adult day services, and camping and recreation. Building from easterseals' expertise, easterseals is focusing on three service areas of critical importance: early intervention, workforce development and adult services. (see schedule o for additional program information)
$16,891,801 spentof which $14,420,571 as grants$3,060,396 earned by the program52% of program spendingPublic health education: creating a public awareness about individuals living with disabilities and the issues they face through multi-media public education campaigns, community advocacy, and by providing up-to-date resources about disabilities, disability awareness, opportunities, universal design, and other relevant topics. The primary focus is on young children, older adults, people living with autism, and military service members and veterans with disabilities.
$8,516,023 spentof which $269,200 as grants$1,542,887 earned by the program26% of program spendingFundraising advisory: training and consultation with easterseals' affiliates to strengthen their relationships with donors and make the general public aware of the needs of children and adults with disabilities and their families.
$4,400,500 spentof which $1,322,300 as grants$797,259 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services - professional education and training: activities to improve the knowledge, skills, and critical judgment of affiliate staff, volunteers, caregivers, and other health and education professionals.
$2,967,623 spent$537,658 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,775,947.
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 2019 to 2020, from $20M to $38M (+92%).
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 38% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 42% · 2023 48% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kendra Davenport
President & CEO
Board chair
Genevieve Winter
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 83 funders to 64 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $669k.
19 of 308 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $35k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easter Seals Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTER SEALS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTER SEALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 308 funders by total. 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 EASTER SEALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 43% · 2019 22% · 2020 63% · 2021 86% · 2022 70% · 2023 15% — 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
27% of EASTER SEALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
57% of EASTER SEALS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 40 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Government funding EASTER SEALS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220.8M on record — $220.7M federal, $19k state.
- Department of Labor$200.7M
- Department of Transportation$19.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$640k
- NJ$11k
- VT$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EASTER SEALS INC
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Easter Seals Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTER SEALS INC: 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 EASTER SEALS INC?
- EASTER SEALS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 308 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,637,888 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,045,550). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 308 organizations giving $27,637,888 in grants to EASTER SEALS INC, 135 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,045,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS INC 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 308 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing