Illinois · Nonprofit
SERTOMA CENTRE INC
SERTOMA CENTRE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,341 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($743,845). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Sertoma Centre Inc does
Mission
To provide vocational, employment, residential and other support services to individuals with disabilities who are 16 years of age and over. Its mission is to provide individuals with disabilities services and opportunities that will enable and empower them to achieve their maximum potential in employment, life skills, and independent living.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
To provide vocational, employment, residential and other support services to individuals with disabilities who are 16 years of age and over. Its mission is to provide individuals with disabilities services and opportunities that will enable and empower them to achieve their maximum potential in employment, life skills, and independent living.
$3,311,176 spentof which $29,295 as grants$3,089,290 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,311,176.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2018 77% · 2019 61% · 2020 6% · 2021 15% · 2022 26% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Gus Van Den Brink
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $88k → $74k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $250k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sertoma Centre Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SERTOMA CENTRE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SERTOMA CENTRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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
SERTOMA CENTRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 SERTOMA CENTRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 78% · 2019 86% · 2020 53% · 2021 68% · 2022 41% · 2023 67% — 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
60% of SERTOMA CENTRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
99% of SERTOMA CENTRE 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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding SERTOMA CENTRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.3M
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 SERTOMA CENTRE 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 3 related entities
- Kimball Court Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Union Avenue Residences LLC · disregarded
- Sertoma Centre Foundation Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERTOMA CENTRE 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 SERTOMA CENTRE INC?
- SERTOMA CENTRE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,341 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($743,845). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERTOMA CENTRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,360,341 in grants to SERTOMA CENTRE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERTOMA CENTRE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC is the largest funder on record, with $743,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERTOMA CENTRE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing