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NISRA FOUNDATION

NISRA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,238 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($79,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$262k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$329k
Net assets
$50k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Nisra Foundation does

Mission

The foundation is a nonprofit organization providing funding to the northern illinois special recreation association (nisra). The foundation sponsors recreationnal programs in illinois to raise funds for nisra.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide funding to the northern illinois special recreation association.

    $289,162 spentof which $289,162 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,162.

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 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2018 Revenue 135 ($228k) Expenses 151 ($220k) Net assets 107 ($134k)2019 Revenue 141 ($238k) Expenses 165 ($240k) Net assets 105 ($131k)2020 Revenue 113 ($190k) Expenses 155 ($226k) Net assets 76 ($96k)2021 Revenue 83 ($140k) Expenses 106 ($155k) Net assets 64 ($81k)2022 Revenue 106 ($180k) Expenses 116 ($169k) Net assets 73 ($92k)2023 Revenue 150 ($253k) Expenses 172 ($250k) Net assets 76 ($95k)2024 Revenue 197 ($333k) Expenses 225 ($328k) Net assets 80 ($100k)2025 Revenue 146 ($246k) Expenses 176 ($256k) Net assets 72 ($90k)2026 Revenue 155 ($262k) Expenses 207 ($302k) Net assets 40 ($50k)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (207)Net assets (40)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 2025 to 2026, from $96k to $55k (−42%).

$125k
$135k
$131k
$96k
$82k
$93k
$98k
$106k
$96k
$55k
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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

49% of NISRA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,844 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.

$23k
’17
$8k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$36k
’20
−$15k
’21
$11k
’22
$3k
’23
$5k
’24
−$10k
’25
−$40k
’26
2.1
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.

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Listed9999799989
Joined·+1+1+0+2+3+0+6+1+1
No longer listed·110410620
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $32k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 NISRA FOUNDATION’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

NISRA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

86% 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 NISRA FOUNDATION.

24%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 40% · 2019 57% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 66% — 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

38% of NISRA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

73% of NISRA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

NISRA FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like NISRA FOUNDATION

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

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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 NISRA FOUNDATION: 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 NISRA FOUNDATION?
NISRA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,238 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($79,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NISRA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $329,238 in grants to NISRA FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NISRA FOUNDATION?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $79,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NISRA FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 12 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