Illinois · Nonprofit
INTERFAITH AMERICA
INTERFAITH AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,643,847 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($23,081,500). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $73M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Interfaith America does
Mission
Interfaith America (IA) activates leaders to advance pluralistic values within their spheres of influence, which will in turn drive change in frameworks, policies, and practices across influential American institutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campus: IA equips leaders across the campus community from senior administrators, educators, and students with resources and opportunities to enact programs and policies that shift norms in higher education, such that pluralism becomes a dominant paradigm for a thriving, diverse campus culture, equipping students with the bridge building skills to live and lead in a diverse democracy. As a result of new and ongoing initiatives, IA now has a network of 652 campuses that are engaging or have engaged substantively with IA programs over the past 3 years (using calendar years 2023-2025) and are positions to advance institutional change. In FY25, IA staff members provided customized, direct support for 11 campuses, including public institutions, private colleges, and religiously affiliated schools. One major opportunity was the Interfaith Leadership Summit, IA's flagship convening held August 8-10, 2025, where 484 students and educations from 138 campuses gained practical skills, resources, and connections for advancing interfaith cooperation and bridge building on their campuses.
$7,810,496 spentof which $1,849,492 as grants$573,731 earned by the program50% of program spendingInnovation: IA works to strengthen America's civic landscape by building a culture of social cohesion and fortifying democratic institutions. Through trainings, convenings, grants and fellowships, and network engagement, IA carried out programs that activate, equip, and support faith and community leaders to advance pluralism, decrease polarization, and support our diverse democracy. The Team Up Project - our partnership with Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity International, and YMCA of the USA - IA supported bridge building initiatives in communities nationwide and helped to embed pluralism skills and resources through our partners' institutional frameworks. IA's Vote is Sacred Fellowship and Faith in Elections Playbook, together with other resources, encouraged nonpartisan, democratic participation and actionable steps to work together for the common good. The Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) grew to over 2,300 members, and IA offered members a range of convenings, trainings, fellowships, grants, and workshops to refine and expand their pluralism and interfaith leadership skills. This support included several Interfaith at Work Cohorts, which provided a space for members of…
$5,575,415 spentof which $1,320,236 as grants$409,550 earned by the program36% of program spendingNarrative: IA's narrative and message of pluralism is a critical part of organizational strategy. By sharing stories of successful cooperation across differences, IA inspires others to act and provide models for others to emulate! Efforts to create a social norm of cooperation across difference through storytelling drives our thought leadership strategy. IA also aids a variety of outlets for individuals outside of our organization to become ambassadors for pluralism. Our efforts to cultivate the thought leadership of others emerges from all program areas and elevates a range of voices including academics and intellectuals, senior leaders, and emerging leaders across the American civic landscape. IA curates these voices and perspectives through an online web hub called IA Today, multimedia storytelling, social media outreach, and email communications.
$2,133,075 spentof which $505,103 as grants$156,688 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,518,986.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $38M (+41%).
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: 2021 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of INTERFAITH AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Adam Phillps
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Toni Clark
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $5.3M.
18 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 INTERFAITH AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 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
INTERFAITH AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% 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 INTERFAITH AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 29% · 2019 56% · 2020 44% · 2021 39% · 2022 60% · 2023 20% — 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
46% of INTERFAITH AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
INTERFAITH AMERICA draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
INTERFAITH AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERFAITH AMERICA
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 INTERFAITH AMERICA: 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 INTERFAITH AMERICA?
- INTERFAITH AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,643,847 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($23,081,500). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERFAITH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $72,643,847 in grants to INTERFAITH AMERICA, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERFAITH AMERICA?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,081,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERFAITH AMERICA 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 101 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