Illinois · Nonprofit
Lawndale Business Renaissance Association
Lawndale Business Renaissance Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $228k
What Lawndale Business Renaissance Association does
Mission
The organizations primary purpose is to aid in the development of business in the Lawndale area and provide employment opportunities for low to moderate income individuals for a designated census tract
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization assists industrial companies in the use of city, County, state and federal programs and incentives. The outcome of the efforts is retention, expansion of existing companies and new industrial companies coming into the underserved Lawndale community of Chicago.
$169,911 spentof which $169,911 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $169,911.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $157k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 72% · 2021 68% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% · 2024 62% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Lawndale Business Renaissance Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
E Bernard Jennings
Executive Director
Board chair
Tom Ragen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Lawndale Business Renaissance Association’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.
Where its funders are
Lawndale Business Renaissance Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Lawndale Business Renaissance Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lawndale Business Renaissance Association
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Lawndale Business Renaissance Association: 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 Lawndale Business Renaissance Association?
- Lawndale Business Renaissance Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lawndale Business Renaissance Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,000 in grants to Lawndale Business Renaissance Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lawndale Business Renaissance Association?
- J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lawndale Business Renaissance Association 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 1 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