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SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS

SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,024 to it, the largest being Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc ($459,901). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$546k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$499k
Net assets
$24k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Sickle Cell Disease Assoc of Illinois does

Mission

The mission of the sickle cell disease association of illinois is to raise awareness of this disease and to improve the quality of life for those who suffer with it. We do this by providing community outreach programs such as new born screening, genetic counseling and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. A patient grant program which assists with counseling education and direct grants. Provide various functions ie..summer camp, xmas party,baby showers, etc. That bring together sickle cell patient form ages 7 to 13. The programs are geared to strengthen the children emotionally as well as physically. Provided a scholarship program committed to helping sickle cell patients attain an education at the college and university level. Provide newborn screen support to at risk families. Participated in illinois sickle cell action network (iscan) program established to collect critial information on those with sickle cell to improve medical follow up.

    $454,439 spent$545,780 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,439.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($323k) Expenses 100 ($329k) Net assets -20 ($-12645)2018 Revenue 54 ($174k) Expenses 56 ($183k) Net assets -33 ($-21366)2019 Revenue 88 ($283k) Expenses 88 ($288k) Net assets -41 ($-26125)2020 Revenue 108 ($350k) Expenses 98 ($323k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2021 Revenue 78 ($252k) Expenses 83 ($273k) Net assets 83 ($53k)2022 Revenue 79 ($256k) Expenses 80 ($262k) Net assets 54 ($35k)2023 Revenue 93 ($300k) Expenses 95 ($314k) Net assets 32 ($21k)2024 Revenue 121 ($391k) Expenses 113 ($372k) Net assets 61 ($39k)2025 Revenue 169 ($546k) Expenses 171 ($561k) Net assets 38 ($24k)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (171)Net assets (38)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $25k to $77k (+208%).

$31k
$16k
$25k
$77k
$54k
$47k
$33k
$52k
$37k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 24% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 66% · 2022 50% · 2023 65% · 2024 77% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$9k
’18
−$5k
’19
$27k
’20
−$21k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$14k
’23
$19k
’24
−$15k
’25
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Talana Hughes

Executive director

Board chair

Darryl Armstrong

Chairman of the board of directors

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed776666667
Joined·+0+3+0+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·04000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $79k → $478.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS’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

SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS.

92%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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

50% of SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
NY
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS?
SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,024 to it, the largest being Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc ($459,901). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $499,024 in grants to SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS?
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc is the largest funder on record, with $459,901 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC OF ILLINOIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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