Illinois · Nonprofit
EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS
EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,733,560 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Easterseals Central Illinois does
Mission
Easterseals Central Illinois provides exceptional services to ensure children with developmental delays, disabilities and other special needs can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Easterseals Central Illinois is an accredited outpatient rehabilitation center which provides an array of pediatric therapy including occupational, physical, speech/language, and behavioral services, as well as family support services for children with developmental delays, disabilities and other special needs. Approximately 34,317 hours of therapy were provided to 5,100 children between the ages of birth and twenty-one.
$6,428,687 spentof which $24,174 as grants$3,546,809 earned by the program55% of program spendingChild and family connections of central illinois - child and family connections (cfc) #14 located in west peoria and #16 in champaign are the regional intake offices for the illinois early intervention system serving children aged birth to three years suspected of a developmental delay or disability and their families. Easterseals began management of these cfc offices on july 1, 2013. The offices provide service coordination and support services throughout eleven central illinois counties. Early intervention credentialed service coordinators work with families to develop an individualized family service plan and help select service providers to meet the needs of their child. The two offices combined served 2,549 families during the year.
$3,047,077 spent26% of program spendingEasterseals Central Illinois learning academy (learning academy) the learning academy is approved by the illinois state board of edcuation as a non-public private facility serving students aged three to twenty-one years. Instruction is centered on evidence based practices and the curriculum is aligned to state learning stands. All of the programs and services provided emphasize an individualized approach to education that meets state and federal mandates with the goal of preparing students to transition back to their schools and communities, and lead successful life.
$2,197,468 spent$2,625,259 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther program activities
$34,467 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,673,232.
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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $16M (+46%).
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 31% · 2018 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 51% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% · 2024 22% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melissa Riddle
President & CEO
Board chair
Aiyer Meenakshy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $122k → $1.6M.
16 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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: $6.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easterseals Foundation of Central Illinois). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 64% · 2020 51% · 2021 84% · 2022 29% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
77% of EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation · exempt
- Easterseals Foundation of Central Il · exempt
- The Austism Collective · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS?
- EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,733,560 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $12,733,560 in grants to EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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