Illinois · Nonprofit
Jane Addams Seniors in Action
Jane Addams Seniors in Action (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,385 to it, the largest being CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ($198,385). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Jane Addams Seniors in Action's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 647 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Incshared funders
- Right to the City Action Fundportfolio match
- Mary's Penceportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
0% of Jane Addams Seniors in Action’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Jane Addams Seniors in Action’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
Jane Addams Seniors in Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Jane Addams Seniors in Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Jane Addams Seniors in Action draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 285 organizations that share them.
- Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Right to the City Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Our Future Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gamaliel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Voters Matter Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Hands on Deck Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Empowered Politicsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Partners Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
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 Jane Addams Seniors in Action
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 Jane Addams Seniors in Action: 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 Jane Addams Seniors in Action?
- Jane Addams Seniors in Action (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,385 to it, the largest being CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ($198,385). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jane Addams Seniors in Action have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $302,385 in grants to Jane Addams Seniors in Action, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jane Addams Seniors in Action?
- CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jane Addams Seniors in Action 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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