Illinois · Nonprofit
SENECA FOUNDATION INC
SENECA FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($750,000). 1 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.
Against its field
SENECA FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Lake County Community Foundationlocal
- Bonafiglia Foundation Incportfolio match
- Scratch Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 SENECA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250k → $500k.
1 of 1 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 SENECA FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SENECA FOUNDATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- The Lake County Community FoundationlocalIL · funds 89 organizations near you
- Bonafiglia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scratch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mikeroweworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- I Car Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suny Impact Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Risingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Machinery Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apollo Opportunity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skillup Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobsfirstnycportfolio 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.
Organizations like SENECA FOUNDATION 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SENECA FOUNDATION 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 SENECA FOUNDATION INC?
- SENECA FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($750,000). 1 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 SENECA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750,000 in grants to SENECA FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENECA FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENECA FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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