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.
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.
- The Coleman Foundation Incshared funders
- The Wyckoff Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Shirley E Noland Foundationportfolio match
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.
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. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Coleman Foundation Incshared fundersIL · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- The Wyckoff Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shirley E Noland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cambridge Kiwanis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- Charles P Wilson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward M & Henrietta M Knabusch Charitable Trust 2portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Geneseo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circle of Service Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 107 organizations that share your funders
- Geneseo Communications Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Favors in Faith Foundation of St Augustineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leo & Mildred Bringwald Family Fdnportfolio 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 GENEVA FOUNDATION
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.
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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 16funders 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