Illinois · Nonprofit
Indo-American Center
Indo-American Center (Illinois) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,969,499 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($2,554,198). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Indo-American Center does
Mission
The Indo-American Center creates and provides services that facilitate South Asian immigrant adjustment, socio-economic wellbeing, and community through direct service, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Civic and immigration services civic engagement Indo-American Center's civic engagement program integrates voter registration, mobilization, empowerment, and education into our public benefits, adult literacy, citizenship and immigration, and seniors programs. This comprehensive approach is designed to emphasize the importance of civic engagement in the form of voting, census participation, and advocacy in immigrant communities-regardless of their immigration status. Immigration and legal services- iac's immigration and citizenship program provides consultation on family- based u.s. Immigration questions, assistance with applying for u.s. Citizenship, assistance with completing select family-based immigration applications, deferred action for childhood arrivals (daca) cases and select translation services.
$632,078 spent38% of program spendingSeniors program seniors the goal of the seniors milan program is to help south asian immigrant seniors fully adjust to their new community within the united states and lead more independent lives. The program incorporates education, active participation in group activities, and hands-on learning. The "milan," which translates as "gathering- or "get-together," is an effective way to assist seniors in overcoming the social isolation that they often experience after moving to the united states. Every week, seniors watch movies, play games, participate in cultural and educational workshops, and enjoy yoga and light exercise. The milan is followed each day by the golden diners lunch, which provides seniors with hot, south asian lunches cooked on premises five days a week. Daily lunches are also critical in helping seniors build their social networks, develop relationships and foster friendships while dining.
$151,936 spent9% of program spendingPublic benefit assistance public benefits the public benefits assistance program assists clients in applying for various forms of government assistance, including medicaid, supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) benefits, senior ride free program and much more. The program combats the three most common barriers clients face in ensuring their welfare: complicated procedures required to receive public benefits; limited ability to communicate in english; the persistence of misinformation related to public benefits.
$242,777 spent15% of program spendingAdult esl and literacy the mission of the esl/literacy program is to facilitate services in which quality and culturally competent educational instruction is accessible to all people in their adjustment, integration, self-sufficiency, and mobilization through the acquisition of the english language. Classes are free of charge and offered in four levels of instruction from beginner to advanced over the course of twelve weeks. Classes range in size from 10 to 15 students with instruction provided by paid staff or volunteers. The curriculum is based upon a multi-level textbook series and enhanced with field trips to educational and entertaining sites in chicago, a conversational club, workshops to enhance self-care, and one-on-one tutoring. The primary goal of this program is to equip learners with english language skills, but in addition to this other aid is provided to students such as mock interviews for citizenship exams and interviews, driver's license test preparation, and completing job applications. In addition to reading, speaking in english is also many of our learners' main goal whether it is to talk with their child's teacher, become a citizen, attain a job or a higher…
$639,619 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,666,410.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+52%).
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 45% · 2018 47% · 2019 46% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 47% · 2023 47% · 2024 50% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Indo-American Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $221k → $594k.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Indo-American Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Indo-American Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 Indo-American Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 37% · 2019 37% · 2020 50% · 2021 72% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of Indo-American Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
91% of Indo-American Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $740k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Indo-American Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Indo-American Center
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Indo-American Center: 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 Indo-American Center?
- Indo-American Center (Illinois) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,969,499 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($2,554,198). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Indo-American Center have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,969,499 in grants to Indo-American Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Indo-American Center?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $2,554,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Indo-American Center 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 36 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