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PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC

PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,548 to it, the largest being THE OTHO SA SPRAGUE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($235,522). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$180k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$338k
Grants received
$70k
Net assets
3/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 230 ($151k) Expenses 163 ($125k) Net assets 370 ($37k)2019 Revenue 248 ($163k) Expenses 228 ($174k) Net assets 258 ($26k)2020 Revenue 63 ($41k) Expenses 76 ($58k) Net assets 89 ($9k)2021 Revenue 42 ($28k) Expenses 39 ($30k) Net assets 68 ($7k)2023 Revenue 147 ($97k) Expenses 54 ($41k) Net assets 633 ($64k)2024 Revenue 203 ($134k) Expenses 218 ($167k) Net assets 307 ($31k)2025 Revenue 274 ($180k) Expenses 184 ($141k) Net assets 696 ($70k)
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Revenue (274)Expenses (184)Net assets (696)Peer revenue range

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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$27k
18
$11k
19
$17k
20
$2k
21
$55k
23
$33k
24
$39k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $107k → $50k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS 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

PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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.

Where its funders are

100% of PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 277 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS 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

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

66%

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 PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS 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.

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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 PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC?
PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,548 to it, the largest being THE OTHO SA SPRAGUE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($235,522). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $337,548 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC?
THE OTHO SA SPRAGUE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $235,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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