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NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER

NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,250 to it, the largest being DILLON FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$5.3M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Northern Illinois Cancer Treatment Center does

Mission

To operate a cancer center which will encompass highly sophisticated & expensive diagnostic & treatment procedures in order to carry out cancer treatment & research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided high quality cancer treatment with the latest comprehensive cancer treatment technology in a welcoming, comfortable and friendly environment. 14,135 procedures were performed during the year. The center also provided $16,895 of charity care during the year to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy.

    $3,526,268 spentof which $16,000 as grants$2,880,409 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,526,268.

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 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($8.2M)2018 Revenue 107 ($2.4M) Expenses 94 ($2.7M) Net assets 97 ($7.9M)2019 Revenue 102 ($2.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.6M) Net assets 93 ($7.6M)2020 Revenue 125 ($2.9M) Expenses 95 ($2.8M) Net assets 94 ($7.7M)2021 Revenue 88 ($2.0M) Expenses 94 ($2.7M) Net assets 85 ($6.9M)2022 Revenue 125 ($2.8M) Expenses 106 ($3.1M) Net assets 82 ($6.7M)2023 Revenue 145 ($3.3M) Expenses 115 ($3.3M) Net assets 81 ($6.6M)2024 Revenue 136 ($3.1M) Expenses 125 ($3.6M) Net assets 75 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 126 ($2.9M) Expenses 127 ($3.7M) Net assets 65 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (127)Net assets (65)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 $7.9M to $7.2M (−9%).

$8.3M
$8.1M
$7.7M
$7.9M
$7.2M
$7.0M
$6.9M
$6.4M
$5.7M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$634k
’17
−$284k
’18
−$315k
’19
$88k
’20
−$734k
’21
−$253k
’22
−$48k
’23
−$534k
’24
−$807k
’25
3.8
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.

Chief executive

Sheri Nelson

Interim executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1189988778
Joined·+0+1+1+0+1+3+1+5
No longer listed·30111414
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER’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

NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER

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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

7
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 NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER: 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 NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER?
NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,250 to it, the largest being DILLON FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,250 in grants to NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER?
DILLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHERN ILLINOIS CANCER TREATMENT CENTER 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing