Illinois · Nonprofit
Search Inc
Search Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,024,458 to it, the largest being RALLA KLEPAK PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ($280,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Search Inc does
Mission
Search empowers people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live, learn, work, and play as valued members of their communities. Search provides person-centered supports including supported living, adult learning, career services, behavioral health, and health and therapeutic care. Search also offers workshops that help individuals build skills to safely use public transportation, and provide community education through Disability Awareness Trainings. Each year, Search serves approximately 350 individuals and families across Chicago and the northern suburbs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Search Adult Learning Services provide individuals with a rich combination of curriculum and community based services designed to appeal to a broad range of interests. Curriculum topics include creative arts, health and wellness, personal development, sensory integration, work skills, internet literacy and skills for life. Community Life includes a variety of volunteer and community-based experiences in partnership with other local agencies. Other services include an immersive visual arts program, home-based service facilitation and behavioral health supports. Individuals can participate in programs on a full-time or part-time basis. Services are designed to meet the needs and preferences of individuals with a wide range of intellectual disabilities, from mild to profound.
$6,284,575 spent$6,168,669 earned by the program25% of program spendingSearch Supported Living Services consist of a broad range of services and supports for adults with intellectual disabilities. The duration and frequency of services is based on the needs and preferences of each individual. Individuals decide the services and supports they will receive in the setting and community of their choice. Options include the family home, small group home arrangements and semi-independent, in-home settings.
$17,327,248 spent$22,158,616 earned by the program70% of program spendingSearch Community Employment Services match individuals to employers in the local community. This program offers a full array of job development and placement services. Services include vocational assessment, job coaching, as well as assistance in the areas of independent travel, managing wages and benefits, as well as building good relationships with co-workers.
$666,299 spent$757,308 earned by the program3% of program spendingAncillary Services
$280,628 spent1% of program spendingSupported Employment
$279,808 spent$137,622 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,838,558.
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.
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 $28M to $31M (+11%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 8% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Cory Gumm
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Pete Petersen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $152k.
3 of 30 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Keystone Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Search Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Search 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
Search Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 88% · 2019 54% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 53% — 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
24% of Search Inc'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
96% of Search 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. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Search 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
89% 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
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Planet Access Company LLC · disregarded
- Keystone Alliance · exempt
- Glenkirk · exempt
- Keystone Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Search 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 Search Inc?
- Search Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,024,458 to it, the largest being RALLA KLEPAK PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ($280,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Search Inc have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,024,458 in grants to Search Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Search Inc?
- RALLA KLEPAK PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Search 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 30 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