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Sequoia Unlimited Inc

Sequoia Unlimited Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($116,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$46k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$156k
Net assets
$309k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Sequoia Unlimited Inc does

Mission

Nurture discipleship in foreign countries.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Assisting Christians to grow stronger in the faith, in Romania, Central Asia & Russia. Religious books are provided that areboth practical & inspirational.

    $146,384 spentof which $97,632 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,384.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2018 Revenue 213 ($268k) Expenses 129 ($195k) Net assets 254 ($121k)2019 Revenue 322 ($405k) Expenses 138 ($207k) Net assets 670 ($319k)2020 Revenue 56 ($70k) Expenses 120 ($181k) Net assets 438 ($209k)2021 Revenue 517 ($650k) Expenses 130 ($196k) Net assets 1390 ($662k)2022 Revenue 22 ($27k) Expenses 113 ($170k) Net assets 1090 ($520k)2023 Revenue 51 ($64k) Expenses 113 ($170k) Net assets 868 ($414k)2024 Revenue 36 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($151k) Net assets 649 ($309k)
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Revenue (36)Expenses (100)Net assets (649)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 2020 to 2021, from $209k to $662k (+218%).

$48k
$121k
$319k
$209k
$662k
$520k
$414k
$309k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of Sequoia Unlimited Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
$73k
’18
$198k
’19
−$111k
’20
$454k
’21
−$143k
’22
−$106k
’23
−$105k
’24
37
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.

Board chair

John Advocaat

Chairman & President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

2018201920212022
Listed8887
Joined·+0·+0
No longer listed·0·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $5k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
total
$35k
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 Sequoia Unlimited 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

Sequoia Unlimited Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

97% 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 Sequoia Unlimited Inc.

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

75% of Sequoia Unlimited 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. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

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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. $116k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sequoia Unlimited Inc's revenue fell 64% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−228% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sequoia Unlimited Inc?
Sequoia Unlimited Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($116,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sequoia Unlimited Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $155,600 in grants to Sequoia Unlimited Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sequoia Unlimited Inc?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sequoia Unlimited 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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