Illinois · Nonprofit
Of Color Inc
Of Color Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,252,782 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($645,627). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Of Color Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cuore e Mani Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared funderslocal
- Chicago Coalition to End Homelessnessportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 94% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Of Color Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $33 → $312k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Of Color Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
Of Color Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Of Color Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — 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
99% of Of Color Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cuore e Mani Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDE · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
- Chicago Coalition to End Homelessnessportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Forwardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homestead Affordable Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Promises Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Action Illinoisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Memorial Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- WP & HB White Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Of Color Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.4M
- Department of Labor$2.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Of Color Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Of Color Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Of Color Inc?
- Of Color Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,252,782 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($645,627). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Of Color Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,252,782 in grants to Of Color Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Of Color Inc?
- ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY is the largest funder on record, with $645,627 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Of Color 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing