Illinois · Nonprofit
Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA
Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA does
Mission
Grants given to pay costs for techinical and skilled competitions
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The primary exempt purpose is to solicit funds for the promotion of vocational education for students in career education programs
$1,264,261 spentof which $1,304,033 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,264,261.
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 2022 to 2023, from $315k to $62k (−80%).
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: 2023 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Foundation of Skills USA VICA’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 Foundation of Skills USA VICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
75% 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 Foundation of Skills USA VICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Foundation of Skills USA VICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,813 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,813 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA
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
98% 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 Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA: 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 Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA?
- Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,500 in grants to Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA.
- Who is the largest funder of Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA?
- JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Illinois Foundation of Skills USA VICA 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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