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LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,900 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($153,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$545k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$210k
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 Revenue 100 ($770k) Expenses 100 ($216k) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 40 ($309k) Expenses 106 ($229k) Net assets 105 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 55 ($422k) Expenses 106 ($228k) Net assets 109 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 40 ($310k) Expenses 116 ($250k) Net assets 104 ($3.9M)2021 Revenue 47 ($362k) Expenses 94 ($203k) Net assets 131 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 63 ($487k) Expenses 123 ($266k) Net assets 119 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 33 ($257k) Expenses 136 ($292k) Net assets 116 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 38 ($295k) Expenses 126 ($271k) Net assets 125 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 71 ($545k) Expenses 122 ($263k) Net assets 133 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (122)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$554k
17
$79k
18
$194k
19
$59k
20
$159k
21
$221k
22
$36k
23
$24k
24
$282k
25
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $53k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS 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

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100%growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2022, 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

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

IL
NE

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

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18
19
22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 14%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

31%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS 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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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 LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION?
LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,900 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($153,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $209,900 in grants to LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION?
Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $153,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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