Illinois · Nonprofit
SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,138 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $667k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Seize the Future Development Foundation does
Mission
To motivate and facilitate the revitalization and development of aurora and its downtown.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Contributed to the economic and workforce development of the city of aurora.
$710,739 spent100% of program spendingAssistance to local organization.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $710,739.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $2.2M (−35%).
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 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Donald Pilmer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $508k → $22k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’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
SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 73% — 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 SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's revenue grew 61% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$2.0M
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 SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 1 related entity
- Aurora St Charles Senior Living · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: 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 SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,138 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $667,138 in grants to SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- DUNHAM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEIZE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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