Illinois · Nonprofit
SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION
SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,643,594 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association does
Mission
The association is dedicated to meeting the needs of municipalities in the area south of chicago, il. This is achieved by pooling resources for joint purchasing, educational efforts, economic development and various other issues common to all south suburban municipalities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association supports member municipalities within the south suburbs through targeted technical assistance and regional planning collaboration, working to support communities by providing data-driven regional planning to improve resilience and economic growth and prosperity. We have been an integral partner in the south suburban economic growth initiative, a multidisciplinary effort to stabilize and strengthen the south suburbs and foster equitable, inclusive economic growth of business and households. The association partners with cook county, the chicago southland economic development corporation, the southland development authority, chicago metropolitan agency for planning and other business and civic organizations working to ensure the region and its people are able to meet its full economic potential. The association supports efforts to address infrastructure, land use, blight, property tax reform, and other issues that affect land use and economic recovery. The association prioritizes development initiatives which focus on rebuilding communities and economies around transit, intermodal facilities and manufacturing, while committing to preserving and improving the natural…
$684,897 spent$690,370 earned by the program47% of program spendingIn cooperation with the united states environmental protection agency, illinois environmental protection agency, and cook county department of environment and sustainability (ccdes), the association has overseen the identification, assessment and remediation of former industrial or commercial sites that are considered "brownfields" due to actual or perceived contamination and continues to play a role in revitalizing former brownfield sites, prioritizing their redevelopment, working with member municipalities to bring underutilized sites back into productive reuse. Ssmma currently is collaborating with cook county to oversee brownfield remediation of a limited number of contaminated sites utilizing designated county arpa funds for projects within the southland.
$236,511 spent$254,335 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe association supports south suburban/regional transportation planning and programming activities related to roadway, freight, transit, air, bike, and pedestrian modes of travel, and transportation facilities, infrastructure, and projects. Association staff provides technical assistance in obtaining and administering federal and state transportation funds; research and report preparation and agency coordination efforts; and supports implementation of the member communities' complete streets and long-range transportation planning activities and other regional transportation projects, studies and programs. The association acts as a regional liaison in planning and programming of federal surface transportation program funds, local and state highway, transit and bicycle planning programs, and assists in the coordination and management of the south council corridor planning council serving the south suburban region. In 2025, the association oversaw and managed an illinois department of transportation's statewide planning and research grant project developing recommendations for transportation improvements within the calumet triangle/torrence avenue corridor region on behalf of the…
$212,844 spent$185,542 earned by the program15% of program spendingGis consortium, watershed, idot calumet triangle, csfn, mmc lieeoe, management and general, and fundraising
$311,976 spent$1,182,304 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,446,228.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.6M to $5.2M (+13%).
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 47% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 41% · 2024 46% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $216k → $100k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION’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
SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
65% of SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $800k 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
SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION: 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION?
- SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,643,594 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,643,594 in grants to SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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