Illinois · Nonprofit
Second Chance Initiative Inc
Second Chance Initiative Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,329 to it, the largest being ACCLIVUS INC ($789,329). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Second Chance Initiative Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Chicago Beyond Incshared funders
- Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violenceportfolio match
- Ujima the National Center on Violence Against Womenportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of Second Chance Initiative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $235k → $300k.
From the IRS filings of Second Chance Initiative 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
Second Chance Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Second Chance Initiative Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Second Chance Initiative 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. 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.
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.
- Chicago Beyond Incshared fundersIL · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ujima the National Center on Violence Against Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Criminal Justice Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Payne County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morrison Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- The Swan Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deatley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Criminal Justice Reform Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding Second Chance Initiative Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $590 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $590
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 Second Chance Initiative Inc
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Second Chance Initiative 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Second Chance Initiative Inc?
- Second Chance Initiative Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,329 to it, the largest being ACCLIVUS INC ($789,329). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Second Chance Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $844,329 in grants to Second Chance Initiative Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Second Chance Initiative Inc?
- ACCLIVUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $789,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Second Chance Initiative 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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