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SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC

SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,538,048 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,102,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$8.5M
Net assets
$813k
11/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC) is to nurture, sustain, and mobilize the African American faith community in collaboration with civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders to address critical needs of human rights and social justice within local, national, and global communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. This program services related to these expenses include educational and social programmimg to support community and sustainability, economic development, and engagement in public polocy.

    $1,243,746 spent$1,265,630 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,243,746.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 35 ($844k) Expenses 123 ($1.9M) Net assets 102 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 58 ($1.4M) Expenses 146 ($2.3M) Net assets 46 ($729k)2022 Revenue 58 ($1.4M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 31 ($480k)2023 Revenue 78 ($1.9M) Expenses 119 ($1.9M) Net assets 34 ($541k)2024 Revenue 127 ($3.1M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 116 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 53 ($1.3M) Expenses 146 ($2.3M) Net assets 52 ($813k)
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Revenue (53)Expenses (146)Net assets (52)Peer revenue range

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 $561k to $2.2M (+299%).

$1.6M
$0
$1.6M
$960k
$662k
$561k
$2.2M
$1.3M
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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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 15% · 2023 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$834k
’18
’19
−$1.1M
’20
−$894k
’21
−$278k
’22
−$956
’23
$1.6M
’24
−$1.0M
’25
1.7
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

Dr Iva Carruthers

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed19242520181812
Joined··+1+1+0+2+0
No longer listed··06226
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $113k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE 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

SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
88%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 39% · 2021 55% · 2022 43% · 2023 46% — 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 SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
CA
NC
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC's revenue fell 47% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−80% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 38%Fundraising 7%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC?
SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,538,048 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,102,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $8,538,048 in grants to SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,102,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing