Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND
ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,150,279 to it, the largest being Rush University Medical Center ($1,003,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND has grown faster than half of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy 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.
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared funders
- Lifelink Foundation Incportfolio match
- Nevada Donor Network Incportfolio 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.
100% of ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $110k → $150k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network). These are real filings, and they are not money ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 TRANSPLANT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 TRANSPLANT FUND's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 218 organizations that share them.
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Lifelink Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nevada Donor Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allosourceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Jacobson Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edwin F Schild Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Kirsten Cunningham Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gerdin Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Risdal Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chott Family Foundationportfolio 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 TRANSPLANT 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.
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network · exempt
- Gift of Hope Community Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT 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 TRANSPLANT FUND?
- ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,150,279 to it, the largest being Rush University Medical Center ($1,003,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,150,279 in grants to ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND?
- Rush University Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $1,003,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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