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PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP

PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,524 to it, the largest being PROGRESS CHICAGO ($46,524). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$0
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$164k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Protect Illinois Communities Nfp does

Mission

The mission of Protect Illinois Communities Nfp is to raise awareness around gun violence and its impact on communities across illinois through a mix of grassroots, earned media and paid media engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Protect Illinois Communities Nfp launched in december 2022 in support of efforts to pass much needed gun reform in illinois that will make our communities safer. The newly formed organization will provide resources to engage voters across the state as well as members of the state legislature as they consider gun reform legislation to keep our communities safe.Protect Illinois Communities Nfp has been engaged in a statewide advocacy campaign to raise awareness around gun violence and its impact on communities across illinois through a mix of grassroots, earned media and paid media engagement, which included everything from rallies and press conferences to submitting opinion pieces and local newspapers to running television and digital ads, while conducting polling to get a sense of where voters stand on these issues. This work ultimately helped passage of a first ever assault weapon and high capacity magazine ban in the state.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($275k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 2 ($62k) Net assets 77 ($213k)2025 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 2 ($49k) Net assets 60 ($164k)
202320242025
Revenue (0)Expenses (2)Net assets (60)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $275k to $213k (−23%).

$275k
$213k
$164k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$275k
’23
−$62k
’24
−$49k
’25
40
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

Rebecca Carroll

President/CEO & treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
total
Progress Chicagounclassified
$47k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP'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

PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve40.4mo · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP: 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 PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP?
PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,524 to it, the largest being PROGRESS CHICAGO ($46,524). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $46,524 in grants to PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP.
Who is the largest funder of PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP?
PROGRESS CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $46,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROTECT ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES NFP 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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