Illinois · Nonprofit
HUMAN CONNECTIONS
HUMAN CONNECTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,835 to it, the largest being EUGENE AND JANET LERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Human Connections does
Mission
Our mission is to increase empathy across cultures and strengthen communities through responsible travel experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student Programs: alternative breaks for international university and high school students hosted in Nayarit, Mexico
$126,092 spent$192,232 earned by the program62% of program spendingSpecialty Trips: study abroad or travel experiences organized by Human Connections for private groups.
$63,046 spent$82,920 earned by the program31% of program spendingDay Tours: short-term travel experiences for travelers visiting Nayarit, Mexico.
$14,236 spent$29,902 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $203,374.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $152k to $122k (−20%).
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.
1% of HUMAN CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $32.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HUMAN CONNECTIONS’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
HUMAN CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 65% · 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.
Where its funders are
85% of HUMAN CONNECTIONS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135 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
HUMAN CONNECTIONS's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMAN CONNECTIONS
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.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMAN CONNECTIONS: 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 HUMAN CONNECTIONS?
- HUMAN CONNECTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,835 to it, the largest being EUGENE AND JANET LERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMAN CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $76,835 in grants to HUMAN CONNECTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMAN CONNECTIONS?
- EUGENE AND JANET LERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMAN CONNECTIONS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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