Illinois · Nonprofit
EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP
EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,800 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($564,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $325k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $966k
- Net assets
- $-167173
What Eighteenth Street Development Corp does
Mission
Commercial support services (css)- Eighteenth Street Development Corporation (esdc) assists area businesses to resolve zoning, licensing, and other issues which require interface with local or city government offices. Esdc works with a variety of public and private officials to plan the location and scope of city of chicago and cook county improvement projects to ensure that neighborhood needs are addressed. Esdc seeks to promote area businesses by publishing an annual business directory and also producing a variety of events during the year. These include mole de mayo in the month of may and buen provecho pilsen in september. Local industrial retention initiative (liri)- by working with over 200 hundred small, medium and large scale businesses in pilsen's industrial corridor, the industrial development division of esdc assists in the growth and development of industrial businesses to expand employment opportunities in the community. The pilsen industrial corridor (pmd 11) covers 907 a
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Nbdc at esdc assists new small businesses with licensing,zoning and other issues which require interface with local and city government agencies. Esdc works with variety entities to provide small businesses with financial resources, employment and workforce development assistance, consumer makreting with a goal of connecting the small businesses to the local community.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 $136k to $14k (−90%).
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 67% · 2018 58% · 2019 48% · 2020 115%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $100k → $188k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP’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
EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 53% — 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
40% of EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
58% of EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP'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 $402k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $564k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP: 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 EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,800 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($564,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $965,800 in grants to EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $564,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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