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ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,138 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($27,009). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$159k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$438k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Illinois Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation does

Mission

Illinois hotel & lodging association educational foundation (ihlaef) is dedicated to mentoring future hotel employees and providing continuing education for current hospitality industry employees.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The illinois hotel & lodging association educational foundation (ihlaef) is the not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) educational arm of the illinois hotel & lodging association (ihla). The foundation focuses on three major initiatives: scholarships, educational programming, and high school to career curriculum and workforce development.

    $82,986 spentof which $20,260 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $82,986.

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 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($326k)2018 Revenue 130 ($89k) Expenses 113 ($62k) Net assets 97 ($315k)2019 Revenue 128 ($88k) Expenses 126 ($69k) Net assets 110 ($359k)2020 Revenue 42 ($29k) Expenses 98 ($54k) Net assets 106 ($345k)2021 Revenue 105 ($72k) Expenses 65 ($36k) Net assets 121 ($393k)2022 Revenue 59 ($40k) Expenses 61 ($34k) Net assets 116 ($378k)2023 Revenue 123 ($84k) Expenses 133 ($73k) Net assets 113 ($368k)2024 Revenue 232 ($159k) Expenses 156 ($86k) Net assets 134 ($438k)
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Revenue (232)Expenses (156)Net assets (134)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 2023 to 2024, from $407k to $494k (+21%).

$326k
$315k
$359k
$345k
$393k
$378k
$407k
$494k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$26k
’18
$18k
’19
−$25k
’20
$36k
’21
$7k
’22
$11k
’23
$73k
’24
17
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.

Chief executive

Michael Jacobson

President & CEO/director

Board chair

Nabil Moubayed

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+7+0+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·0605113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15 → $33.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $67k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association). These are real filings, and they are not money ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’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 HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

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 HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

100% of ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,138 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($27,009). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,138 in grants to ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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