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SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,855,400 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($14,114,658). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$15M
Revenue FY2024
229
Funders on record
$23M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
135/229 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($9.7M) Expenses 100 ($9.7M) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2018 Revenue 115 ($11M) Expenses 99 ($9.6M) Net assets 115 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 130 ($13M) Expenses 125 ($12M) Net assets 132 ($7.6M)2020 Revenue 95 ($9.3M) Expenses 88 ($8.6M) Net assets 154 ($8.8M)2021 Revenue 118 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($9.7M) Net assets 192 ($11M)2022 Revenue 183 ($18M) Expenses 150 ($15M) Net assets 232 ($13M)2023 Revenue 169 ($16M) Expenses 189 ($18M) Net assets 205 ($12M)2024 Revenue 159 ($15M) Expenses 165 ($16M) Net assets 201 ($11M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (165)Net assets (201)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 9% · 2019 16% · 2020 24% · 2021 16% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$1.5M
18
$494k
19
$697k
20
$1.8M
21
$3.2M
22
$2.0M
23
$591k
24
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $3.1M.

25 of 229 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $948k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Illinois So Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS raised.

From the IRS filings of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 229 funders by total. 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS.

62%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 75% · 2019 73% · 2020 64% · 2021 71% · 2022 53% · 2023 67%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

46% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 30 states in all.

ME
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 229 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 8%Fundraising 9%

Governance

37
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,855,400 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($14,114,658). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 229 organizations giving $22,855,400 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS, 135 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,114,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 229funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing