Illinois · Nonprofit
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70,196 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($70,196). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tremont Betterment Associationlocal
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio match
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND’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
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Tremont Betterment AssociationlocalIL · funds 9 organizations near you
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Library and Information Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel H Kress Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bryn Mawr Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The FY Chang Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard J Phelps Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smithsonian Institutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert H Smith Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Francis and Kathleen Rooney Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wolstencroft Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND: 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 EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND?
- EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70,196 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($70,196). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $70,196 in grants to EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND?
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN ENDOWMENT FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing