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ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES
ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,375 to it, the largest being THOMAS BROWN PERP CHAR TST ($9,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 764 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 764 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsshared fundersportfolio match
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationshared funders
- The Fund for Animals Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
7% of ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES’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 FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% — 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
ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES 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. 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 119 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- The Fund for Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexander McCausland Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rex and Nelle Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Patricia Florence Miller Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humane World for Animals Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Animal Legal Defense Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eric Holby Animal Welfare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Miccio Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halo Pet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Kenneth a Charitable Tashared fundersOH · backs 24 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 FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES
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.
Public support
95%
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 FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES: 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 FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES?
- ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,375 to it, the largest being THOMAS BROWN PERP CHAR TST ($9,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,375 in grants to ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES?
- THOMAS BROWN PERP CHAR TST is the largest funder on record, with $9,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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