Illinois · Nonprofit
SHOREFRONT NFP
SHOREFRONT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,005,767 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $925k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $906k
What Shorefront Nfp does
Mission
Shorefronts mission is to collect, preserve, and share the stories of Black individuals who have lived, sometimes invisibly, throughout Chicagos suburban north shore.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Reparations:Initially described as the Evanston Reparations Legacy Project: Stories of the countrys first reparations recipients, Shorefronts Intergenerational Interview Project is an inspiring 8-week program in Evanston, Illinois. Supported by the Field Foundations Media and Storytelling grant, the project brought together two cohorts of local students and recipients of Evanstons historic reparations initiative to share, document, and preserve their stories. At its heart, this program fostered meaningful relationships across generations. Participants learned interviewing techniques and oral history practices while connecting through shared experiences and histories.Shorefront Legacy Center published an inaugural publication summarizing the 2024 Intergenerational Interview Project activities and outcomes, and a second publication is being planned.
$96,040 spent53% of program spendingArchive & Collection:Shorefront Legacy Center promotes understanding of Black history on Chicagos suburban North Shore. It is an Evanston-based community archive, library, educational resource, and research center. The archival and library collections capture some of the history of African American activists, artists, leaders, politicians, and others who lived dynamic, rich lives in the North Shore. The material highlights the African American presence, experience, and impact.Shorefront Legacy Center collects and preserves the history through its living, community archive. Artifacts are collected in many forms, including personal items, articles, photographs, oral histories, digital media, and more. Shorefront Legacy Center is open to all researchers and the general public. Staff welcome inquiries regarding the archive's collections and information related to Black life in Evanston and Chicago's North Shore. For researchers who need assistance finding relevant materials on a particular research topic or to meet a specific information need, research consultation appointments are available.
$62,288 spent34% of program spendingYoung Learners:The goal of the Young Learners is to link young people, ages 10-14 with individuals in the community who have a wealth of knowledge about the history and culture of Evanstons African American community. During a six-month program, 4-8 students, meeting once a week are mentored on how to research, document, collect, preserve, and display their communitys history.The curriculum includes field trips to local historical societies and cultural museums, and presentations from local historians, genealogists, storytellers, sociologist, and documentary photographers. The project culminates with a Legacy Fair in which community residents brought personal photographs depicting life in Evanston in different decades. In this event, Shorefront assistants copy the photographs, conduct oral histories, and then take professional photographs to provide a contemporary component for future exhibitions.
$22,749 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,077.
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 2023 to 2024, from $260k to $906k (+248%).
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: 2023 35% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SHOREFRONT NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $47k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SHOREFRONT NFP’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
SHOREFRONT NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 38% · 2022 62% · 2023 96% — 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
40% of SHOREFRONT NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SHOREFRONT NFP draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
SHOREFRONT NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHOREFRONT NFP
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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SHOREFRONT NFP: 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 SHOREFRONT NFP?
- SHOREFRONT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,005,767 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOREFRONT NFP have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,005,767 in grants to SHOREFRONT NFP, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOREFRONT NFP?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOREFRONT NFP 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 12 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