Illinois · Nonprofit
Still Searching Project Nfp
Still Searching Project Nfp (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,250 to it, the largest being University of Chicago Medical Ctr ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Still Searching Project Nfp has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Bright Promises Foundationshared funders
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Community Memorial Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 Still Searching Project Nfp’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
Still Searching Project Nfp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Still Searching Project Nfp.
“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
100% of Still Searching Project Nfp's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bright Promises Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Memorial Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narrow Gate Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christine C Schulze Legacy Foundation co Ken Ashworth & Associatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dreamville Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hardy Bunch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Broser Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Still Searching Project Nfp
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Still Searching Project Nfp: 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.
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 Still Searching Project Nfp?
- Still Searching Project Nfp (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,250 to it, the largest being University of Chicago Medical Ctr ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Still Searching Project Nfp have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,250 in grants to Still Searching Project Nfp.
- Who is the largest funder of Still Searching Project Nfp?
- University of Chicago Medical Ctr is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Still Searching Project Nfp 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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