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NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC

NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,500 to it, the largest being GEIGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$86k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$54k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Nicole Ellis Foundation Inc does

Mission

Promoting awareness to liver disease

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promoting awareness to liver disease

    $96,301 spentof which $40,877 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,301.

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 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2018 Revenue 96 ($69k) Expenses 141 ($91k) Net assets 58 ($30k)2019 Revenue 101 ($72k) Expenses 110 ($71k) Net assets 61 ($32k)2020 Revenue 76 ($54k) Expenses 69 ($45k) Net assets 79 ($42k)2021 Revenue 107 ($76k) Expenses 110 ($71k) Net assets 90 ($47k)2022 Revenue 115 ($82k) Expenses 124 ($80k) Net assets 93 ($49k)2023 Revenue 109 ($78k) Expenses 98 ($63k) Net assets 122 ($64k)2024 Revenue 121 ($86k) Expenses 149 ($96k) Net assets 103 ($54k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (149)Net assets (103)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 2017 to 2018, from $52k to $30k (−42%).

$52k
$30k
$32k
$42k
$47k
$49k
$64k
$54k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$22k
’18
$1k
’19
$10k
’20
$5k
’21
$2k
’22
$15k
’23
−$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC’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

NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 56% · 2023 75% — 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.

Where its funders are

NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

IL
WI

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. 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

NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC?
NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,500 to it, the largest being GEIGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,500 in grants to NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC?
GEIGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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