Illinois · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS
SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,433 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($19,433). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers does
Mission
To advance the science of tribology and the practice of lubrication engineering in order to foster innovation, improve the performance of equipment and products, conserve resources and protect the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The society provides education to members and non-members in the field of lubrication engineering through monthly and quarterly periodicals, research publications and annual conferences.
$2,670,233 spentof which $19,800 as grants$2,519,339 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,670,233.
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.
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 $4.1M to $4.9M (+18%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Rebecca Lintow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Against its field
SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS: 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 SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS?
- SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,433 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($19,433). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $19,433 in grants to SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $19,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS AND LUBRICATION ENGINEERS 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 1 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