Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,297 to it, the largest being KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN FOUNDATION INC ($195,800). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What National Kidney Foundation of Illinois does
Mission
The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois improves the health and well-being of people at risk for or affected by kidney disease through prevention, education, and empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services and public education: the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois (nkfi) provides prevention screenings for diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease as well as education, healthcare referral and follow up to medically underserved communities across the state of illinois through its kidneymobile program. The nkfi also partners with organizations across the state to promote and bring a greater awareness to organ donation. The nkfi also offers a variety of educational materials and resources, both in print and on their website. The nkfi conducts various activities throughout the community to educate people about and help prevent kidney disease. Educational materials regarding ckd, diabetes and high blood pressure were distributed to approximately 19,000 people in fiscal year 2024.
$1,426,844 spent55% of program spendingPatient services: the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois (nkfi) offers educational seminars and workshops for individuals and their families throughout the year on topics related to the management and treatment of kidney disease and its co-morbidities. The nkfi also offers one-on-one phone consultation and educational material to anyone living in illinois interested in receiving more information about kidney disease and its two leading causes, diabetes and high blood pressure. During the fiscal year 2024, 1,930 participants were screened.
$617,587 spent$675,447 earned by the program24% of program spendingProfessional education: the nkfi provides continuing education for primary care physicians, nephrologists, transpant surgeons, nurses, dietitians, and social workers.
$427,444 spent16% of program spendingOther program services:research: the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois ("nkfi") research grant program funds young investigators who have research projects that will increase the understanding of kidney, urologic and related diseases and transplantation as well as improve the clinical management and treatment or cure of these diseases. The nkfi also shares a portion of its revenue to support national programs and initiatives of the national kidney foundation.nkfi also has an innovations grant that supports and funds new, innovative applications, research, technologies, and other novel processes that lead to more effective, equitable and sustainable solutions to improve the lives of those at risk for kidney disease and transplantation-related diseases, and/or improve the prevention, management and treatment or cure of these diseases.
$124,634 spentof which $63,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,596,509.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.1M to $8.3M (+17%).
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 0% · 2019 10% · 2020 12% · 2021 22% · 2022 32% · 2023 17% · 2024 21% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jacqueline Burgess-Bishop
Executive director
Board chair
Suneel Udani Md
Chair - pab
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $178k → $241k.
14 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% 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
43% 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 NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 24% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% — 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
41% of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
86% of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS?
- NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,297 to it, the largest being KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN FOUNDATION INC ($195,800). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $1,737,297 in grants to NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS?
- KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION 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.
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 71 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