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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,935 to it, the largest being Earth Force Inc ($182,164). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$100k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$340k
Net assets
$93k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Environmental Education Assn of Illinois does

Mission

Entity is organized and operates exclusively to assist and improve environmental education.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Meeting expenses for annual and regional conferences held for the benefit of environmnetal educators, as well as public relations brochures and awards provided.

    $24,762 spentof which $39,703 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,762.

02The 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 ($24k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($86k)2018 Revenue 239 ($58k) Expenses 327 ($66k) Net assets 91 ($78k)2019 Revenue 200 ($49k) Expenses 251 ($51k) Net assets 88 ($76k)2020 Revenue 380 ($92k) Expenses 333 ($67k) Net assets 117 ($101k)2021 Revenue 318 ($77k) Expenses 487 ($98k) Net assets 97 ($84k)2022 Revenue 466 ($113k) Expenses 551 ($111k) Net assets 99 ($85k)2023 Revenue 618 ($150k) Expenses 562 ($114k) Net assets 141 ($122k)2024 Revenue 545 ($132k) Expenses 747 ($151k) Net assets 120 ($103k)2025 Revenue 554 ($135k) Expenses 575 ($116k) Net assets 141 ($122k)2026 Revenue 414 ($100k) Expenses 673 ($136k) Net assets 107 ($93k)
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Revenue (414)Expenses (673)Net assets (107)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $85k to $122k (+43%).

$86k
$78k
$77k
$101k
$84k
$85k
$122k
$103k
$122k
$93k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$2k
’19
$25k
’20
−$21k
’21
$2k
’22
$37k
’23
−$19k
’24
$18k
’25
−$36k
’26

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Brekke Bounds

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $68k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS’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

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS.

54%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 60% · 2023 69% — 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

60% of ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
CO
DC

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

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$40k

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 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS?
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,935 to it, the largest being Earth Force Inc ($182,164). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $339,935 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS?
Earth Force Inc is the largest funder on record, with $182,164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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