Illinois · Nonprofit
Student Basic Needs Coalition
Student Basic Needs Coalition (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,021 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $353k
- Net assets
- $547k
What Student Basic Needs Coalition does
Mission
The Student Basic Needs Coalition (SBNC) empowers students to lead efforts that address food and housing insecurity on college campuses. Through peer-to-peer support, public education, and innovative technology solutions, SBNC works to ensure that no student has to choose between meeting their basic needs and pursuing their education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campus Engagement: In 2025, SBNC expanded its campus engagement efforts to support colleges in connecting students to resources that meet their basic needs through a competitive national application process that selected more than 30 colleges and universities to participate in peer navigator training and technical assistance. Student peer navigators conducted outreach activities including tabling, workshops, classroom presentations, and digital campaigns to increase awareness of resources such as SNAP, campus food pantries, emergency aid, and NAVVY while reducing stigma around accessing support. The program benefited college students experiencing food or financial insecurity as well as campus administrators seeking scalable strategies to improve student retention and resource utilization, serving institutions nationwide with an emphasis on community colleges and public institutions. Thousands of students were reached through peer-led outreach activities, and participating campuses strengthened their capacity to sustain basic needs programming, representing an expansion of SBNCs campus engagement services in 2025.
$588,316 spent$398,525 earned by the program84% of program spendingState Engagement: In 2025, SBNC continued and expanded its state engagement work across the Great Lakes region by supporting collaboration among higher education institutions, students, and state agencies to improve awareness of public benefits and strengthen implementation practices that help eligible college students access available resources. SBNC facilitated participation of students and campus representatives in statewide working groups and advisory bodies focused on improving coordination between colleges and public benefit systems. The program benefited college students eligible for public benefits as well as higher education and agency partners seeking effective strategies to increase utilization of existing supports, serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Outcomes included increased cross-sector coordination, improved dissemination of benefits information to students, and expanded institutional capacity to connect students with available assistance, reflecting continued expansion of SBNCs state engagement activities in 2025.
$73,812 spent$50,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingConnecting Students to Public Benefits Through Technology (NAVVY): In 2025, SBNC launched NAVVY in partnership with Impactica, a nationwide eligibility screener available at no cost to students attending higher education institutions to determine whether they may qualify for public benefits such as SNAP or Medicaid based on state-specific requirements and receive guidance on next steps toward enrollment. The program benefited low-income college students facing informational and administrative barriers to accessing benefits and was available nationwide across higher education institutions. More than 50,000 students used NAVVY during the year, with approximately two thirds identified as potentially eligible for public benefits, representing millions of dollars in potential assistance for students and establishing scalable national infrastructure to improve benefits awareness and access. NAVVY was a new program launched in 2025 and will continue to expand functionality in future years.
$38,573 spent$26,129 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $700,701.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $106k to $548k (+419%).
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.
100% of Student Basic Needs Coalition’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Owen Flomberg
Co-Executive Director
Board chair
Anu Gupta
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $45k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Student Basic Needs Coalition’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
Student Basic Needs Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 Student Basic Needs Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
Student Basic Needs Coalition draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
Student Basic Needs Coalition runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Student Basic Needs Coalition
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Student Basic Needs Coalition: 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 Student Basic Needs Coalition?
- Student Basic Needs Coalition (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,021 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Student Basic Needs Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $353,021 in grants to Student Basic Needs Coalition, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Student Basic Needs Coalition?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Student Basic Needs Coalition 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing