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Multicultural Leadership Institute

Multicultural Leadership Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,139 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($29,719). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$138k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$59k
Net assets
$239k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Multicultural Leadership Institute does

Mission

Leadership development- From July 2025 to March of 2026 31 individuals completed the intense leadership development curriculum which included significant service projects for several local nonprofits.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. From July 2025 to March 2026 31 individuals completed the intense leadership development curriculum which included significant service projects for several local nonprofits

    $85,382 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,382.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($172k)2018 Revenue 119 ($122k) Expenses 102 ($110k) Net assets 110 ($189k)2019 Revenue 104 ($107k) Expenses 103 ($111k) Net assets 106 ($182k)2020 Revenue 79 ($81k) Expenses 93 ($101k) Net assets 95 ($163k)2021 Revenue 170 ($174k) Expenses 91 ($99k) Net assets 139 ($239k)2022 Revenue 122 ($126k) Expenses 79 ($86k) Net assets 163 ($279k)2023 Revenue 95 ($98k) Expenses 78 ($85k) Net assets 170 ($292k)2024 Revenue 81 ($83k) Expenses 110 ($119k) Net assets 150 ($257k)2025 Revenue 98 ($101k) Expenses 127 ($137k) Net assets 129 ($221k)2026 Revenue 134 ($138k) Expenses 111 ($120k) Net assets 139 ($239k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (111)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $185k to $244k (+32%).

$201k
$210k
$195k
$185k
$244k
$279k
$293k
$262k
$236k
$240k
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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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

7% of Multicultural Leadership Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,582 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$12k
’18
−$4k
’19
−$19k
’20
$76k
’21
$40k
’22
$13k
’23
−$35k
’24
−$36k
’25
$18k
’26

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

Sharon Dodd

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $11k.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Multicultural Leadership Institute’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

Multicultural Leadership Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Multicultural Leadership Institute.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of Multicultural Leadership Institute'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Multicultural Leadership Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 99 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 99 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

74%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Multicultural Leadership Institute: 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 Multicultural Leadership Institute?
Multicultural Leadership Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,139 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($29,719). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Multicultural Leadership Institute have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $59,139 in grants to Multicultural Leadership Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Multicultural Leadership Institute?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $29,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Multicultural Leadership Institute 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing