Illinois · Nonprofit
KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION
KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $459,870 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($200,610). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programKIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$59M
Recipients
0
Contributions on record
$460k
Donors on record
6
Payments out run 127.6x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- Golder Family Foundationshared funders
- Stephanie F Beeder and John W Beeder Foundationportfolio match
- South Central Community Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $101k → $118k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 KIRKLAND & ELLIS 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.
Where its funders are
97% of KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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.
- Golder Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- Stephanie F Beeder and John W Beeder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Baileyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beach-Edwards Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack Goldstein Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Manhattan Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1998 Jack Goldstein Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amicus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Danajames Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Weary Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kirkland & Ellis · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIRKLAND & ELLIS 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.
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 KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION?
- KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $459,870 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($200,610). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $459,870 in grants to KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $200,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIRKLAND & ELLIS 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.
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 6funders 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