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GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION

GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,000). 0 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 FY2024
$156k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
$1.8M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Genetic Counseling Foundation does

Mission

To serve as a catalyst for the integration of genomic information and genetic counseling services into healthcare through philanthropic support of education, research, and public policy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educating - enhance the value, availability and awareness of genetic information and counseling in the medical community.

    $102,449 spentof which $92,844 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,449.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 6 ($95k) Expenses 79 ($77k) Net assets 91 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 4 ($69k) Expenses 77 ($76k) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 4 ($65k) Expenses 83 ($82k) Net assets 119 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 10 ($168k) Expenses 146 ($143k) Net assets 123 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 5 ($81k) Expenses 107 ($105k) Net assets 95 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 8 ($126k) Expenses 104 ($102k) Net assets 106 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 10 ($156k) Expenses 105 ($103k) Net assets 112 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (10)Expenses (105)Net assets (112)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $1.6M (−24%).

$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.9M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
$18k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$17k
’20
$25k
’21
−$24k
’22
$24k
’23
$53k
’24

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.

Chief executive

Meghan Carey

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1213131313131313
Joined·+5+6+5+5+5+6+5
No longer listed·4655565
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 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 GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION’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

GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION'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. $80k 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

Against its field

GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−28% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

28%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • National Society of Genetic Counselors · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION: 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 GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION?
GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,000). 0 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 GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,000 in grants to GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GENETIC COUNSELING FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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