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ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,141,228 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 2 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.
- Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Incshared funders
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio match
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 71% · 2019 70% · 2020 78% · 2021 74% · 2022 83% · 2023 79% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $332k → $550k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES’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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550k 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.
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.
- Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Incshared fundersWI · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Healthcare Illinois & Indianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covering Kids & Families of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Employees International Illinois Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wintercare Energy Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shriver Center on Poverty Lawportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Community Action Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Incshared fundersWI · backs 3 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES: 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,141,228 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,141,228 in grants to ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES 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 4funders 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