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Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois) receives grants from 242 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,757,407 to it, the largest being THE JOHN P CALAMOS SR FOUNDATION ($13,075,000). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Illinois Institute of Technology's funding base is broadening — from 62 funders to 75 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Hearing Health Foundationportfolio match
- The University of British Columbiaportfolio 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. 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% · 2024 11% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Illinois Institute of Technology’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $8.3M.
33 of 242 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Institute of Technology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 242 funders by total. 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 Institute of Technology has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
42% 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 Institute of Technology.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 39% · 2019 32% · 2020 24% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of Illinois Institute of Technology's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of Illinois Institute of Technology's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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. Your 242 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 123 organizations that share your funders
- Hearing Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The University of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Hearing Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arvo Foundation for Eye Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Computing Research Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barnard Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trek Scholarship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 145 organizations that share your funders
- The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 88 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.
Government funding Illinois Institute of Technology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $257.7M on record — $257.7M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$107.1M
- National Science Foundation$64.7M
- Department of Energy$32.8M
- Department of Education$24.0M
- Department of Defense$11.7M
- Department of Transportation$6.8M
- Scholarships-Students$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Illinois Institute of Technology
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Iit Research Institute · exempt
- Perpetual Trust (9) Beneficial Interest in Donor Trusts · corp_trust
- Illinois Institute of Technology (India) Private Ltd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Illinois Institute of Technology: 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 Institute of Technology?
- Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois) receives grants from 242 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,757,407 to it, the largest being THE JOHN P CALAMOS SR FOUNDATION ($13,075,000). 145 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Illinois Institute of Technology have?
- IRS filings report 242 organizations giving $73,757,407 in grants to Illinois Institute of Technology, 145 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Illinois Institute of Technology?
- THE JOHN P CALAMOS SR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Illinois Institute of Technology 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 242funders 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