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LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND

LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,980 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($42,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$256k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$135k
Grants received
$387k
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Against its field

LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin60% · top quartile
Months of reserve45.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education 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 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2024 Revenue 141 ($230k) Expenses 70 ($66k) Net assets 337 ($233k)2025 Revenue 157 ($256k) Expenses 109 ($103k) Net assets 560 ($387k)
202320242025
Revenue (157)Expenses (109)Net assets (560)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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
23
$164k
24
$154k
25
45
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)73% 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 SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND’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 SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

73% 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 LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND.

32%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

“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

73% of LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND'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 $36k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.

IL
MI
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

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 SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND

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

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lake Shore Country Club · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND: 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 SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND?
LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,980 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($42,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $134,980 in grants to LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $42,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE SHORE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND 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 2023–2025), 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