Illinois · Nonprofit
THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,100 to it, the largest being LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trustshared fundersportfolio match
- Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cioshared fundersportfolio match
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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.
96% of THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 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 THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND’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
THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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 THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
“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
THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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.
- Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trustshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cioshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Watermark Auto Group FoundationlocalDE · funds 21 organizations near you
- New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcjaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamsters Union Local 25 Affiliated With Ibtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Trainingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sprinkler Fitters Local 483portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learningportfolio 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 THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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 THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,100 to it, the largest being LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,100 in grants to THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA 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 THE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 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