Illinois · Nonprofit
QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC
QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,421 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FOUNDATION ($1,595,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Quad County Urban League Inc does
Mission
To secure equal opportunities for all disadvantaged persons and people of color, including African Americans, women and persons with disabilities and advocating and establishing programs that facilitate the social and economic growth of residents in the communities it serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Administered various programs to assure equal opportunities for disadvantaged persons and people of color, including African Americans, women and persons with disabilities. Achievements include training, educational assistance, job placement assistance and emergency assistance for residents in the communities of DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties in Illinois.
$3,176,965 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,176,965.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $5.3M (+28%).
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: 2017 103% · 2018 44% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 48% · 2024 57% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Theodia Gillespie
President & CEO
Board chair
Nina Hunter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $240k → $1.3M.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE 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
QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 61% · 2019 60% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 85% — 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
17% of QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE 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. $481k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Labor$3.1M
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 QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,421 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FOUNDATION ($1,595,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,338,421 in grants to QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- DUNHAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,595,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE 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.
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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 25 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