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MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION

MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION (Illinois) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,746,120 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,314,300). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.0M
Revenue FY2024
140
Funders on record
$7.7M
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
56/140 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%

Against its field

MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)90% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2019 Revenue 467 ($303k) Expenses 489 ($254k) Net assets 283 ($137k)2020 Revenue 699 ($453k) Expenses 747 ($388k) Net assets 420 ($203k)2021 Revenue 2063 ($1.3M) Expenses 1616 ($840k) Net assets 1452 ($701k)2022 Revenue 8185 ($5.3M) Expenses 3367 ($1.7M) Net assets 8811 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 4621 ($3.0M) Expenses 5180 ($2.7M) Net assets 9438 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 4660 ($3.0M) Expenses 7127 ($3.7M) Net assets 7915 ($3.8M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (4660)Expenses (7127)Net assets (7915)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
18
$49k
19
$65k
20
$497k
21
$3.6M
22
$304k
23
$683k
24
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $4k → $2.4M.

29 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 funders by total. 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

MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

65% 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 MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION.

17%
largest funder
30%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 56% · 2019 35% · 2020 36% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 14%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

36% of MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

50% of MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION'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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 28 states.

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 140 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 MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION

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

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 11%Fundraising 12%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: 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 MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION?
MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION (Illinois) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,746,120 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,314,300). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION have?
IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $7,746,120 in grants to MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,314,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 140funders 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