Illinois · Nonprofit
LADIES OF VIRTUE
LADIES OF VIRTUE (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,652,205 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($369,543). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ladies of Virtue does
Mission
To instill purpose, passion, and perserverence in girls, ages 9 to 18, while preparing them for college, careers, and to become change agents in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides education, resources, and job skills training and supportto young women specifically from the wages of nine to eighteen. Significantactivities include coursework in developing and enhancing skills necessary forcollege and employment.
$1,784,437 spent$154,743 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,784,437.
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 2021 to 2022, from $502k to $1.0M (+101%).
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: 2022 18% · 2023 25% · 2024 23% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LADIES OF VIRTUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Board chair
Sheilina Henry
Dev. Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $36k → $586k.
14 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LADIES OF VIRTUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
LADIES OF VIRTUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
66% 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 LADIES OF VIRTUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 23% · 2019 49% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% — 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
48% of LADIES OF VIRTUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
78% of LADIES OF VIRTUE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LADIES OF VIRTUE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LADIES OF VIRTUE
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
95%
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 LADIES OF VIRTUE: 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 LADIES OF VIRTUE?
- LADIES OF VIRTUE (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,652,205 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($369,543). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LADIES OF VIRTUE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $2,652,205 in grants to LADIES OF VIRTUE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LADIES OF VIRTUE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $369,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LADIES OF VIRTUE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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