Illinois · Nonprofit
Great Books Great Discussions
Great Books Great Discussions (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($25,000). 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 FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Great Books Great Discussions does
Mission
To promote lifelong liberal learning through reading and discussing great books.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Great Books Great Discussions offers online Socratic seminars concentrating on classic literature and philosophy. In 2025 the nonprofit held 174 virtual seminar sessions catering to regular core groups and special-topic classes. The programs are conducted online and backed by a continuous member discussion community.
$50,718 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,718.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 Great Books Great Discussions’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Great Books Great Discussions'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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Great Books Great Discussions runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Great Books Great Discussions: 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 Great Books Great Discussions?
- Great Books Great Discussions (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($25,000). 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 Great Books Great Discussions have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Great Books Great Discussions.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Books Great Discussions?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Books Great Discussions 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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