Illinois · Nonprofit
Latin Center
Latin Center (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,346 to it, the largest being Enlace Chicago ($332,925). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Latin Center does
Mission
Programs developed to reduce illiteracy, joblessness, poverty, homelessness in the Chicago area through bilingual/bicultural exchange of individuals residing in inner city neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
UPs Health Literacy Initiative(or simply Healin) proposes to build strong and healthy individuals, families and communities.It offers physical fitness classes and workshops on health issues affecting our communities, also aims to improve residents quality of life through nutrition, exercise and stress reduction. We offer healthy cooking, yoga, dance aerobics, nutrition seminars, and guitar classes. Periodically, it hosts health-related seminars on topics such as obesity, asthma, respiratory illnesses, gardening, organic food, preventive medicine, drug abuse, alcoholism, and STDs.
$930,319 spent$1,571,265 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $930,319.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+20%).
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: 2017 88% · 2018 71% · 2019 75% · 2020 81% · 2021 74% · 2022 77% · 2023 69% · 2024 76% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Elio DeArrudah
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $122k → $158k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Latin Center’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
Latin Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Latin Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 71% · 2019 34% · 2020 62% · 2021 32% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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
33% of Latin Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
94% of Latin Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Latin Center
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Latin Center: 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 Latin Center?
- Latin Center (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,346 to it, the largest being Enlace Chicago ($332,925). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Latin Center have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,175,346 in grants to Latin Center, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Latin Center?
- Enlace Chicago is the largest funder on record, with $332,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Latin Center 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 14 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