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Lupus Society of Illinois

Lupus Society of Illinois (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,849 to it, the largest being PAUL A & JOAN S RUBSCHLAGER FOUNDATION ($80,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$265k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$304k
Net assets
$57k
12/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Lupus Society of Illinois does

Mission

The Organizations purposes are to encourage research to discover the causes and cure of Lupus; promote public awareness; serve patients and their families through education and encouragement; and to encourage and assist local organizations with similar mission related to Lupus

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Public awareness - the organization places books and pamphlets in libraries, presents announcements on radio, tv and in newspapers to inform the public about lupus as a major health problem. Member services - the organization acts as an international resource to members. The organization provides programs for emotional support and distributes newsletters containing current information about lupus.

    $278,571 spent
    99% of program spending
  2. Medical research - the organization pays hospitals, doctors and their national organization to conduct research into the causes of lupus.

    $3,848 spentof which $3,848 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,419.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($724k) Expenses 100 ($453k) Net assets 100 ($462k)2018 Revenue 59 ($430k) Expenses 112 ($505k) Net assets 84 ($386k)2019 Revenue 52 ($379k) Expenses 111 ($503k) Net assets 57 ($262k)2020 Revenue 40 ($291k) Expenses 80 ($364k) Net assets 41 ($191k)2021 Revenue 63 ($456k) Expenses 86 ($389k) Net assets 56 ($258k)2022 Revenue 80 ($578k) Expenses 103 ($464k) Net assets 80 ($372k)2023 Revenue 48 ($345k) Expenses 104 ($472k) Net assets 53 ($246k)2024 Revenue 42 ($303k) Expenses 87 ($396k) Net assets 33 ($153k)2025 Revenue 37 ($265k) Expenses 80 ($362k) Net assets 12 ($57k)
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Revenue (37)Expenses (80)Net assets (12)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $269k to $397k (+48%).

$488k
$402k
$276k
$266k
$269k
$397k
$452k
$332k
$209k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 27% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$271k
’17
−$76k
’18
−$124k
’19
−$73k
’20
$67k
’21
$113k
’22
−$126k
’23
−$93k
’24
−$97k
’25
1.9
months of
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

Charles Brummell

CEO

Board chair

Robert Katz Md

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131313111213111010
Joined·+1+1+0+2+1+0+1+2
No longer listed·11210222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $41k.

7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Lupus Society of Illinois’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

Lupus Society of Illinois leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

61% 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 Lupus Society of Illinois.

26%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 52% · 2019 57% · 2020 40% · 2021 62% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — 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

25% of Lupus Society of Illinois's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of Lupus Society of Illinois's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
MO
NC
FL

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

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’18
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’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Lupus Society of Illinois

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lupus Society of Illinois?
Lupus Society of Illinois (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,849 to it, the largest being PAUL A & JOAN S RUBSCHLAGER FOUNDATION ($80,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lupus Society of Illinois have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $303,849 in grants to Lupus Society of Illinois, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lupus Society of Illinois?
PAUL A & JOAN S RUBSCHLAGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lupus Society of Illinois 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 26 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