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SOWER ORGANIZATION

SOWER ORGANIZATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,883 to it, the largest being UNITED MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY COALITION ($400,883). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$386k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$401k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Sower Organization does

Mission

The Sower provides recovery support services to persons suffering from mental health and substance abuse. The organization provides screenings, interventions, brief interventions and referrals for person who are indigent.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The program enrolled and screened 3876 clients during the fiscal year. These clients were all screened and all were considered indigent clients whose income were all under the national poverty level. These clients were all referred to other recovery support providers to receive additional recovery support services.

    $385,519 spent$385,519 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Clients from all programs that clients were referred to continued to provide recovery support services to clients in and around the Chicagoland area and the Southland Suburban Area

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. N/a

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $385,519.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($277k) Expenses 100 ($277k)2022 Revenue 116 ($321k) Expenses 116 ($321k)2023 Revenue 144 ($398k) Expenses 144 ($398k)2024 Revenue 149 ($413k) Expenses 149 ($413k)2025 Revenue 139 ($386k) Expenses 139 ($386k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (139)Expenses (139)Peer revenue range

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 $191k to $413k (+116%).

$277k
$321k
$191k
$413k
$386k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SOWER ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’21
$0
’22
$0
’23
$0
’24
$0
’25

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.

20212022202320242025
Listed23133
Joined····+0
No longer listed····0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of SOWER ORGANIZATION’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 SOWER ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Against its field

SOWER ORGANIZATION has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SOWER ORGANIZATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOWER ORGANIZATION: 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 SOWER ORGANIZATION?
SOWER ORGANIZATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,883 to it, the largest being UNITED MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY COALITION ($400,883). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOWER ORGANIZATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400,883 in grants to SOWER ORGANIZATION.
Who is the largest funder of SOWER ORGANIZATION?
UNITED MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $400,883 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOWER ORGANIZATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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