Illinois · Nonprofit
PILSEN ALLIANCE
PILSEN ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,889 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FUND INC ($273,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Pilsen Alliance does
Mission
To improve the quality of life and preserve the rich mexican culture in the greater pilsen community by supporting local leadership at the grassroots level and creating advocacy/organizing campaigns that promotes self-determination, accountability and inclusiveness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Public Transportation EquityServed as a lead agency of the Blue Line Transit Taskforce that fought a successful 7-year battle to restore night and weekend rail service on the Douglas Branch of the Blue Line. The Line serves the communities of Pilsen, Little Village, and North Lawndale - all predominately low-income communities of color.Government TransparencyHelped pass the first Public Advisory Referenda in Chicago's 25th Ward, which called for open community hearings on all zoning changes. They are meant to provide the community with a means of voicing their concerns over the growing number of high-end loft and condo conversions. The Referenda passed with 95% of the vote.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $99k to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of PILSEN ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $60k → $180k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PILSEN ALLIANCE’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
PILSEN ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
40% 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 PILSEN ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 2023 52% — 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
33% of PILSEN ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
97% of PILSEN ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.
Against its field
PILSEN ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,113 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,113 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like PILSEN ALLIANCE
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 PILSEN ALLIANCE: 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 PILSEN ALLIANCE?
- PILSEN ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,889 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FUND INC ($273,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PILSEN ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,023,889 in grants to PILSEN ALLIANCE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILSEN ALLIANCE?
- CROSSROADS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $273,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILSEN ALLIANCE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 13 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