Illinois · Nonprofit
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD ($112,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $215k
What Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to provide hiv & hepatitis testing & counseling. Also distribution & overdose education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Joshua Olt;s Lets Talk Foundation(JOLT) mission is to provide services and programs which addresses the negative social consequent of the high risk behaviors such as drug injection and social injusticeswhich impacts the individuals engaged in such behaviors. It provides comprehensive services to people who use drugs such as testing for HIV and Hepatitis C, acess to medical care, provision of clean supplies for injecting drugs provision of naloxone to prevent opiod overdose, education on risk reduction and help with housing and placement.
$791,434 spent$990,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $791,434.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $147k to $258k (+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: 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 89% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $62k.
1 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation’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
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation: 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 Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation?
- Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD ($112,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $144,600 in grants to Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation?
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD is the largest funder on record, with $112,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing