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ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D

ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.2M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$225k
Net assets
$3.8M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Illinois Business and Economic Development Corp Dba Illinois Economic D does

Mission

To bring new jobs, investment and economic prosperity to the state of illinois through dynamic partnerships and collaborations with companies, universities, non-for-profit organizations and the government to deliver a unified approach to economic development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Business development for the state of illinois.

    $3,385,263 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,385,263.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($798k)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.8M) Expenses 99 ($2.2M) Net assets 183 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 48 ($1.4M) Expenses 95 ($2.1M) Net assets 98 ($779k)2020 Revenue 49 ($1.4M) Expenses 75 ($1.6M) Net assets 68 ($545k)2021 Revenue 61 ($1.7M) Expenses 67 ($1.5M) Net assets 103 ($822k)2022 Revenue 132 ($3.8M) Expenses 140 ($3.0M) Net assets 197 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 141 ($4.0M) Expenses 194 ($4.2M) Net assets 174 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 256 ($7.3M) Expenses 299 ($6.5M) Net assets 280 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 285 ($8.2M) Expenses 301 ($6.6M) Net assets 482 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (285)Expenses (301)Net assets (482)Peer revenue range

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 $3.1M to $4.9M (+60%).

$862k
$1.5M
$873k
$700k
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$3.1M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 76% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% · 2024 84% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$688k
’17
$659k
’18
−$677k
’19
−$234k
’20
$276k
’21
$749k
’22
−$179k
’23
$843k
’24
$1.6M
’25
6.2
months of
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.

Board chair

John Atkinson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed222623161510215260
Joined·+7+2+5+2+2+14+37+12
No longer listed·351237364
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $60k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
$150k
funders
1
2
3

Left out of every figure on this page: $68k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D raised.

From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D’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 BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% 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 BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

52% of spending goes to programs.

Program 52%Management 43%Fundraising 6%

Governance

54
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D?
ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $225,000 in grants to ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D?
OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D 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 3 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