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FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND

FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,000 to it, the largest being ENERGY ACTION FUND ($815,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$84k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$926k
Net assets
$-1177
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Faith in Place Action Fund does

Mission

People of faith and conscience promotting political action for environmental justice in illinois.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Advocacy - the Faith in Place Action Fund develops and advocates for legislation, regulations, and government programs to care for the earth. Through political advocacy, legislative education, and grassroots lobbying, the fund empowers citizens, clergy, and elected officials to make a positive difference in the areas of energy and climate change, sustainable food and land use, and water preservation.

    $102,675 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,675.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 111 ($60k) Expenses 93 ($46k) Net assets 326 ($21k)2020 Revenue 185 ($100k) Expenses 198 ($97k) Net assets 352 ($23k)2021 Revenue 236 ($128k) Expenses 191 ($93k) Net assets 883 ($57k)2022 Revenue 142 ($77k) Expenses 119 ($58k) Net assets 1168 ($75k)2023 Revenue 230 ($125k) Expenses 159 ($78k) Net assets 1900 ($123k)2024 Revenue 602 ($326k) Expenses 867 ($423k) Net assets 402 ($26k)2025 Revenue 156 ($84k) Expenses 228 ($111k) Net assets -18 ($-1177)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (228)Net assets (-18)Peer revenue range

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 $466k to $26k (−94%).

$14k
$28k
$54k
$65k
$86k
$131k
$466k
$26k
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$15k
’18
$4k
’20
$34k
’21
$18k
’22
$47k
’23
−$97k
’24
−$27k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

'17'18'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed55877747
Joined·+1·+0+0+1+1+3
No longer listed·1·10140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $56k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Energy Action Fundunclassified
$815k
Sierra Clubunclassified
$15k
funders
2
1
2
2
3
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $470k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Faith in Place). These are real filings, and they are not money FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of FAITH IN PLACE ACTION 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.

How concentrated its funding is

FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND.

88%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2023 54% — 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

FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
IN
CA

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

’19
’20
’21
’23
Illinois out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND has grown faster than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND

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.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Faith in Place · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAITH IN PLACE ACTION 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 FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND?
FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,000 to it, the largest being ENERGY ACTION FUND ($815,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $926,000 in grants to FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND?
ENERGY ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $815,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAITH IN PLACE ACTION 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 5 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