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THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION

THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,972,952 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($1,100,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.2M
Revenue FY2025
63
Funders on record
$8.0M
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
42/63 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%

Against its field

THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2018 Revenue 139 ($1.7M) Expenses 115 ($1.7M) Net assets 94 ($6.1M)2019 Revenue 342 ($4.3M) Expenses 166 ($2.5M) Net assets 136 ($8.8M)2021 Revenue 223 ($2.8M) Expenses 179 ($2.7M) Net assets 152 ($9.9M)2022 Revenue 303 ($3.8M) Expenses 281 ($4.2M) Net assets 129 ($8.4M)2023 Revenue 309 ($3.9M) Expenses 348 ($5.3M) Net assets 98 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 321 ($4.0M) Expenses 351 ($5.3M) Net assets 71 ($4.6M)2025 Revenue 259 ($3.2M) Expenses 301 ($4.6M) Net assets 54 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (259)Expenses (301)Net assets (54)Peer revenue range

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$265k
17
$7k
18
$1.8M
19
$75k
21
$473k
22
$1.4M
23
$1.3M
24
$1.3M
25
8.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $216k → $1.7M.

17 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)47% 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: $629k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Casualty Actuarial Society). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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

THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

67% 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 THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION.

14%
largest funder
32%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 15%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

66% of THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 23 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 63 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 THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION

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

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 17%Fundraising 17%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: 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 THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION?
THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,972,952 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($1,100,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $7,972,952 in grants to THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION?
NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION 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 63funders 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