Illinois · Nonprofit
RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,666,133 to it, the largest being THE KNOWLES FOUNDATION ($543,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Ray Graham Association for People With Disabilities does
Mission
To create opportunities that empower people with disabilities to reach, grow, and achieve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community learning centers support more than 400 adults in four program locations throughout dupage county. People are supported to participate in their communities through employment, volunteerism and recreation. Individual plans are developed to support people as they learn important life skills.
$3,728,871 spent$3,650,574 earned by the program17% of program spendingResidential services allow people with all levels and types of disabilities to live in more than 25 ray graham owned residences in the community. Through supported living services, people receive assistance and support in a variety of areas, including community access, skills training, personal care assistance, money management and socialization. Trained staff provide support services to assist individuals in maximizing their independence and quality of life.
$16,847,703 spent$19,583,626 earned by the program78% of program spendingRay graham association partners with about 150 businesses and institutions throughout dupage, will, cook, grundy, and kane counties to help people with disabilities find a job and find the right fit. We assist 150 people a year find the financial independence a new job offers through interview training, resume writing, and learning to dress for success. Skills like navigating public transportation and connecting to support at work contribute to the 90% retention rate for employment seekers. Personal consultations help families to navigate service options, explore unique social and health care opportunities, and find sources of funding for people with disabilities.
$1,082,978 spent$621,235 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,659,552.
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 $25M to $32M (+27%).
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 77% · 2018 77% · 2019 11% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kim Zoeller
President/CEO
Board chair
Dave Farra
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $269k → $419k.
17 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
41% 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 RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 37% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 34% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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
40% of RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $906k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 95 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: 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 RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES?
- RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,666,133 to it, the largest being THE KNOWLES FOUNDATION ($543,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $2,666,133 in grants to RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES?
- THE KNOWLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $543,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 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 57 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