Illinois · Nonprofit
GENEVA FOUNDATION
GENEVA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,614 to it, the largest being SAMUEL M CHERRY MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TR ($265,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $383k
- Net assets
- $0
What Geneva Foundation does
Mission
Geneva Foundation is a nonprofit agency that seeks to stabilize, support and educate adolescent males by providing a safe, healing environment in which to build hope, confidence and life skill to become independent, purposeful young men.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pursuant to the mission statement, Geneva provides housing and counseling to abused and abandoned youths with behavorial disorders.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of GENEVA 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
GENEVA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 95% · 2019 57% · 2020 82% · 2021 39% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of GENEVA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
87% of GENEVA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like GENEVA 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENEVA 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 GENEVA FOUNDATION?
- GENEVA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,614 to it, the largest being SAMUEL M CHERRY MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TR ($265,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENEVA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $382,614 in grants to GENEVA FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENEVA FOUNDATION?
- SAMUEL M CHERRY MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $265,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENEVA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 16 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