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Springfield Urban League Inc

Springfield Urban League Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,671,985 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,342,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$15M
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%

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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($482k)2018 Revenue 105 ($12M) Expenses 101 ($12M) Net assets 111 ($537k)2019 Revenue 103 ($12M) Expenses 99 ($12M) Net assets 123 ($592k)2020 Revenue 95 ($11M) Expenses 92 ($11M) Net assets 125 ($604k)2021 Revenue 126 ($15M) Expenses 113 ($13M) Net assets 341 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 109 ($13M) Expenses 99 ($12M) Net assets 487 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 191 ($22M) Expenses 107 ($13M) Net assets 2408 ($12M)2024 Revenue 135 ($16M) Expenses 124 ($15M) Net assets 2582 ($12M)2025 Revenue 134 ($15M) Expenses 125 ($15M) Net assets 2696 ($13M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (125)Net assets (2696)

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 63% · 2022 77% · 2023 47% · 2024 81% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$385k
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$55k
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$55k
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$11k
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$1.0M
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$702k
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$9.3M
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$843k
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$550k
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8.7
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $481k → $9.9M.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)77% 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 Springfield Urban League Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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

Springfield Urban League Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 Springfield Urban League Inc.

77%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 38% · 2020 89% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 94%growing more concentrated.

“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

63% of Springfield Urban League Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

77% of Springfield Urban League Inc'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. Of the $3.3M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

IL
NY

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. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 12 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.

Government funding Springfield Urban League Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.2M on record.

Federal$68.2M
grants $68.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$67.5M
  • Department of the Interior$350k
  • Department of Justice$343k

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.

Organizations like Springfield Urban League Inc

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

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Springfield Urban League Inc: 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 Springfield Urban League Inc?
Springfield Urban League Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,671,985 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,342,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Springfield Urban League Inc have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $14,671,985 in grants to Springfield Urban League Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Springfield Urban League Inc?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $11,342,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Springfield Urban League Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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