Illinois · Nonprofit
EUREKA COLLEGE
EUREKA COLLEGE (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,465,900 to it, the largest being ZELMA TURLEY TRUST UNDER WILL 1020001168 ($1,388,801). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Eureka College does
Mission
Eureka College provides a student-centered experience that cultivates the essential skills to serve with passion, lead with purpose, pursue growth opportunities and learn for life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Eureka students take courses in the college's four academic divisions: arts and education, humanities, science and mathematics, and social science and business. The eureka community is one that encourages its members involvement and interaction through such activities as music, theatre, student government, and athletics. At the center of the eureka experience is the development of values that will help its graduates contribute to society in roles of leadership and service.the goals of the Eureka College curriculum are published in the Eureka College catalog. The college understands that the true purpose of education is to realize the potential of the whole person. Accordingly, our goals, abbreviated below, are to foster the development of:- the intellect- communication skills aesthetic and cultural awareness- an understanding of the natural environment- physical fitness, alertness, and vitality- competence in at least one academic or professional field- greater social awareness- greater sense of personal responsibility- personal values- ways to use knowledge in leadership and service in 2024-2025, the college saw new student enrollment of 244, with a total enrollment of 527…
$12,979,765 spent$11,435,428 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,979,765.
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 $56M to $62M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 14% · 2023 1% · 2024 9% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of EUREKA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
K Edward Holderle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $392k → $362k.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 EUREKA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
EUREKA COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% — 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
45% of EUREKA COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of EUREKA COLLEGE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
EUREKA COLLEGE receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding EUREKA COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Department of Education$4.7M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$118k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$29k
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 EUREKA COLLEGE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EUREKA COLLEGE: 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 EUREKA COLLEGE?
- EUREKA COLLEGE (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,465,900 to it, the largest being ZELMA TURLEY TRUST UNDER WILL 1020001168 ($1,388,801). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EUREKA COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,465,900 in grants to EUREKA COLLEGE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EUREKA COLLEGE?
- ZELMA TURLEY TRUST UNDER WILL 1020001168 is the largest funder on record, with $1,388,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EUREKA COLLEGE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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