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EASTER SEALS INC

EASTER SEALS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 305 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,461,288 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,045,550). 134 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.

$58M
Revenue FY2024
305
Funders on record
$27M
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
134/305 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64M) Expenses 100 ($63M) Net assets -28 ($-5474552)2018 Revenue 96 ($62M) Expenses 97 ($61M) Net assets -25 ($-5060650)2019 Revenue 90 ($58M) Expenses 89 ($56M) Net assets -7 ($-1388868)2020 Revenue 112 ($72M) Expenses 82 ($52M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2021 Revenue 98 ($63M) Expenses 91 ($58M) Net assets 145 ($29M)2022 Revenue 92 ($59M) Expenses 94 ($59M) Net assets 132 ($26M)2023 Revenue 83 ($53M) Expenses 93 ($59M) Net assets 132 ($26M)2024 Revenue 90 ($58M) Expenses 93 ($58M) Net assets 144 ($29M)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (93)Net assets (144)

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$1.3M
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$648k
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$1.7M
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$21M
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$5.8M
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$124k
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$5.4M
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$517k
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 83 funders to 64 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $669k.

18 of 305 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 305 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 55% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66% 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.

55%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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, 57% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 40 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

03Its place in the field

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 305 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

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.

Federal$220.7M
grants $220.1Mcontracts $640k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$200.7M
  • Department of Transportation$19.4M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$640k
State$19k
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By state
  • 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

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 10%Fundraising 22%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

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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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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 INC?
EASTER SEALS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 305 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,461,288 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,045,550). 134 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 305 organizations giving $27,461,288 in grants to EASTER SEALS INC, 134 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 305funders 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