Illinois · Nonprofit
EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC
EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($42). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $42
- Net assets
- $631k
What Emma L Wilson King Foundation Inc does
Mission
A civic and educational Foundation for the enhancement of neighborhoods in the community of East St. Louis, Il. The Foundation is a volunteer nonprofit organization committed to improving key elements of the city such a parks, gardens and buildings. The education committee's function is to provide annual scholarship awards to high school seniors and new coat awards to elementary and middle schools. Projects and activities are designed to encourage youths to a higher level of excellent. Each year the committee award new coats and scholarships to three districts in the Metro-East area. School district 189, East St. Louis, School district 188 Love Joy and School District 187, Cahokia. A festival is done once a year providing free mechanic rides, inflatables and entertainment for all that attend. In 2025 more than 4,000 children and adults attended the event.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The education committee provides annual scholarship to seniors in three school districts 187, 188 and 189. In 2025 seven graduating students were given scholarships for a total of $5,800.
$5,800 spent$1,668 earned by the program42% of program spendingNew winter coats were awarded to elementary and middle schools in school districts 187, 188 and 189. A total of 211 Coats were awarded to 12 schools in the Metro East Area and one church.
$8,080 spent58% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,880.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $475k to $671k (+41%).
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: 2022 15% · 2023 39% · 2024 0% · 2025 70% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Carl E Officer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 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.
Against its field
EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION 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
29% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION 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 EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC?
- EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($42). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $42 in grants to EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMMA L WILSON KING FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 1 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