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LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC

LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,200 to it, the largest being NEEDMOR CO THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$27k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$156k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lake County United Inc does

Mission

Promotion of social welfare

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provision of leadership training and communuity based forums for topics such as health care, employment, housing, and public transportation.

    $16,280 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,280.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($30k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2022 Revenue 139 ($84k) Expenses 133 ($40k) Net assets 143 ($148k)2023 Revenue 126 ($77k) Expenses 67 ($20k) Net assets 197 ($205k)2024 Revenue 83 ($50k) Expenses 367 ($110k) Net assets 140 ($145k)2025 Revenue 45 ($27k) Expenses 54 ($16k) Net assets 150 ($156k)
201720202022202320242025
Revenue (45)Expenses (54)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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 $205k to $145k (−29%).

$0
$104k
$148k
$205k
$145k
$156k
201720202022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
$31k
’20
$44k
’22
$57k
’23
−$60k
’24
$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $200.

From the IRS filings of LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 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

LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
NY
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
’23
Illinois out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC: 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 LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC?
LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,200 to it, the largest being NEEDMOR CO THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $60,200 in grants to LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC?
NEEDMOR CO THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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