Illinois · Nonprofit
ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER
ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,162 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ($1,115,287). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $452k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $257k
What Elms University Center does
Mission
Elms University Center offers seminars, classes, and individual mentoring to thousands of university, high school, and professional women. Elms has helped women grow in their capacity for service, professional success, and love of god and others, drawing on the spirituality of opus dei, a personal prelature of the catholic church.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support women of all ages in their social, professional and spiritual growth and inspire them toward effectual leadership in their varied roles and environments, by offering seminars, support, classes and individual mentoring. Weekly events for dozens of university women includes mentoring, bible study, times of guided meditation, opportunities for prayer & cultural discussions. For two months each summer, counselors in residence of the metro achievement center receive personal mentoring, coaching and cultural opportunities and optional spiritual formation. Approximately 300 women attended periodic events.
$454,642 spent$221,516 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $95k to $415k (+338%).
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.
51% of ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $85k → $193k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER’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
ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 95% · 2022 87% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: 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 ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER?
- ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,162 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ($1,115,287). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,215,162 in grants to ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER?
- CORPORATION FOR SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,115,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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