Illinois · Nonprofit
ONE COLLECTIVE
ONE COLLECTIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,728,842 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,811,864). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 99
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What One Collective does
Mission
At One Collective, we bring people together to help the oppressed. We believe everyone should have access to food, freedom, and forgiveness. We are committed to making that a reality in the communities where we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Evangelism, church planting, relief and development - we continue the holistic work of jesus through disciple-making, compassion, relief, and development. We are committed to bringing hope, dignity, and wholeness to communities that have been negatively impacted by economic, physical, and spiritual oppression. We bring local and outside resources together to create partnerships that serve and strengthen oppressed communities. Our primary purpose is that no one would be invisible and everyone would have access to food, freedom, and forgiveness.
$9,386,904 spentof which $2,526,736 as grants85% of program spendingAwareness and education - we partner with churches, businesses and schools to bring human and financial resources together on behalf of the oppressed. Promotional activities include raising awareness of the needs of oppressed people globally and providing education and guidance as to how these needs can be addressed and alleviated through active and intentional involvement.
$1,297,590 spent$6,198 earned by the program12% of program spendingTraining, sending and supervising of workers - we retain experienced workers, language experts and other professionals to train new workers. Training is provided through a combination of distance and residence education conducted at our elgin, illinois campus. Once workers are prepared for service they are sent to join teams in field locations around the world. While they are serving in the field, we supervise all activities and provide administrative and organizational infrastructure that enables them to remain in the field.
$317,930 spent$19,627 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,002,424.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $5.9M (+52%).
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: 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ONE COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Scott Olson
CEO/president
Board chair
Jeff Stevenson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $664k → $1.2M.
32 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 ONE COLLECTIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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
ONE COLLECTIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 ONE COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 30% · 2019 43% · 2020 30% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of ONE COLLECTIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
65% of ONE COLLECTIVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.4M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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.
Against its field
ONE COLLECTIVE's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ONE COLLECTIVE
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
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE COLLECTIVE: 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 ONE COLLECTIVE?
- ONE COLLECTIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,728,842 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,811,864). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONE COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $9,728,842 in grants to ONE COLLECTIVE, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE COLLECTIVE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,811,864 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE COLLECTIVE 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 99 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