Illinois · Nonprofit
SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD
SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,878,971 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,514,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $863k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $153k
What Seven Generations Ahead does
Mission
Founded in 2001 , Seven Generations Ahead's mission is to promote the development of ecologically sustainable healthy communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Seven Generations Ahead implemented its nationally-recognized fresh from the farm/farm to school program in chicago public schools, and provided additional metro area schools with training and resources. Fresh from the farm - which combines classroom cirriculum organic farm expeditions farmer classroom visits, school gardens, chef demonstrations, and local food procurement - had a positive impact on children's health eating choices and awareness of where their food comes from.
$869,846 spent96% of program spendingSustainability planning - works with communities and regions to support local sustainability plan development & implementation. These plans help communities reduce their impact on climate change, improve community health, conserve and enhance existing natural resources. Sga convenes stakeholders from all sectors and institutions within the community to develop & implement community sustainability plans. Partnered with chicago metropolitan agency for planning & metropolitan mayors caucus to engage community leaders in building concensus around a core sector sustainability indicators.
Zero waste/food scrap composting - sga works with schools, businesses, institutions, and municipalities to provide support for all steps along a path to zero waste from planning to implementation. Zero waste is fundamentally a different approach to managing materials - one that seeks to emulate natural cycles in which all materials are designed to become resources for others. The process involves starting with the 3 r's (reduce, reuse, recycle/compost) and continually making incremental changes to practices while creating no emmissions that harm the health of the planet or its inhabitants.
Other program services
$35,683 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $905,529.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $363k to $217k (−40%).
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: 2020 89% · 2021 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $416k → $434k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD’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
SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 37% · 2020 63% · 2021 29% · 2022 39% · 2023 28% — 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
69% of SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
61% of SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD's revenue grew 25% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.8M
- Department of Agriculture$93k
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 SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD: 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 SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD?
- SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,878,971 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,514,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,878,971 in grants to SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,514,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 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