Illinois · Nonprofit
IMERMAN ANGELS
IMERMAN ANGELS (Illinois) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,043,063 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($293,507). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 122
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Imerman Angels does
Mission
To provide comfort and understanding for all cancer fighters, survivors, previvors, and caregivers through a personalized, one-on-one connection with someone who has been there.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Imerman Angels matches a person fighting cancer with someone that has beaten cancer, usually of the same type of cancer, age, gender, etc. One-on-one relationships give a fighter the chance to ask personal questions and get support from someone who is uniquely familiar - a survivor.
$1,661,309 spent$99,273 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,661,309.
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 2019 to 2020, from $911k to $1.6M (+76%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IMERMAN ANGELS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Stephanie Lieber
Executive director
Board chair
Nimesh Jhaveri
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $110k → $378k.
14 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 IMERMAN ANGELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
IMERMAN ANGELS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
47% 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 IMERMAN ANGELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 61% · 2019 14% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% — 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
41% of IMERMAN ANGELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
58% of IMERMAN ANGELS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
IMERMAN ANGELS is better cushioned than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like IMERMAN ANGELS
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMERMAN ANGELS: 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 IMERMAN ANGELS?
- IMERMAN ANGELS (Illinois) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,043,063 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($293,507). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMERMAN ANGELS have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $3,043,063 in grants to IMERMAN ANGELS, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMERMAN ANGELS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $293,507 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMERMAN ANGELS 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 122 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing