Illinois · Nonprofit
Grassroots Illinois Action
Grassroots Illinois Action (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,179,580 to it, the largest being SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA ($541,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Grassroots Illinois Action has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,526 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- People's Actionshared fundersportfolio match
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersportfolio match
- Conant Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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.
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.
100% of Grassroots Illinois Action’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of Grassroots Illinois Action’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
Grassroots Illinois Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Grassroots Illinois Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 39% · 2022 59% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Grassroots Illinois Action's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
61% of Grassroots Illinois Action'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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- People's Actionshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Conant Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Wieboldt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Environmental Council General Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PERT Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Redistricting Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundswell Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Way to Win Action Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- State Engagement Fundshared fundersNC · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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 Grassroots Illinois Action
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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Grassroots Collaborative · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grassroots Illinois Action: 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 Grassroots Illinois Action?
- Grassroots Illinois Action (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,179,580 to it, the largest being SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA ($541,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Grassroots Illinois Action have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,179,580 in grants to Grassroots Illinois Action, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grassroots Illinois Action?
- SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA is the largest funder on record, with $541,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grassroots Illinois Action 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 9funders 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