Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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 Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- The Just Trust for Actionshared funders
- Crossroads Fund Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND’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.
Where its funders are
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
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.
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Actionshared fundersNC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Crossroads Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Employees International Illinois Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sentencing Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girlsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Healthcare Illinois & Indianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Our Future Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND: 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 PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $275,000 in grants to ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- ACTION NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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