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ROMANIAN UNITED FUND

ROMANIAN UNITED FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,299 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($175,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$522k
Grants received
$247k
Net assets
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

ROMANIAN UNITED FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,604 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,604 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($109k)2020 Revenue 579 ($907k) Expenses 2005 ($949k) Net assets 62 ($67k)2021 Revenue 1004 ($1.6M) Expenses 431 ($204k) Net assets 1314 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 735 ($1.2M) Expenses 4493 ($2.1M) Net assets 424 ($463k)2023 Revenue 544 ($852k) Expenses 2540 ($1.2M) Net assets 104 ($114k)2024 Revenue 686 ($1.1M) Expenses 2061 ($975k) Net assets 226 ($247k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (686)Expenses (2061)Net assets (226)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ROMANIAN UNITED FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,669 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$109k
19
$42k
20
$1.4M
21
$974k
22
$350k
23
$100k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $107k.

10 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% 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 ROMANIAN UNITED FUND’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

ROMANIAN UNITED FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 ROMANIAN UNITED FUND.

34%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 53% · 2022 46% · 2023 37%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

83% of ROMANIAN UNITED FUND's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

100% of ROMANIAN UNITED FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

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.

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 ROMANIAN UNITED FUND

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.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 9%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

72%

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 ROMANIAN UNITED FUND: 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 ROMANIAN UNITED FUND?
ROMANIAN UNITED FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,299 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($175,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROMANIAN UNITED FUND have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $522,299 in grants to ROMANIAN UNITED FUND, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROMANIAN UNITED FUND?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROMANIAN UNITED FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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