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The Keystone Foundation

The Keystone Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,868 to it, the largest being THE WESSELINK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($220,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$271k
Net assets
$953k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What The Keystone Foundation does

Mission

The Keystone Foundation supports communities by supporting glenkirk and search, two of its nonprofit affiliates. Glenkirk and search provide important services and programs which empower hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities and their families every day. The Keystone Foundation supports glenkirk and search through a myriad of fundraising advocacy endeavors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Keystone Foundation supports communities by supporting glenkirk and search, two of its nonprofit affiliates. Glenkirk and search provide important services and programs which empower hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities and their families every day. The Keystone Foundation supports glenkirk and search through a myriad of fundraising advocacy endeavors.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

02The 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 ($95k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($236k)2018 Revenue 86 ($82k) Expenses 48 ($6k) Net assets 137 ($322k)2019 Revenue 90 ($86k) Expenses 25 ($3k) Net assets 178 ($420k)2020 Revenue 94 ($90k) Expenses 26 ($3k) Net assets 217 ($510k)2021 Revenue 56 ($53k) Expenses 23 ($3k) Net assets 292 ($688k)2022 Revenue 44 ($42k) Expenses 22 ($3k) Net assets 266 ($625k)2023 Revenue 47 ($45k) Expenses 23 ($3k) Net assets 308 ($726k)2024 Revenue 41 ($39k) Expenses 27 ($3k) Net assets 359 ($845k)2025 Revenue 22 ($21k) Expenses 21 ($3k) Net assets 405 ($953k)
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Revenue (22)Expenses (21)Net assets (405)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $510k to $688k (+35%).

$237k
$324k
$428k
$510k
$688k
$625k
$726k
$845k
$953k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’17
$76k
’18
$83k
’19
$87k
’20
$51k
’21
$40k
’22
$42k
’23
$36k
’24
$18k
’25
7.6
months of
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.

Board chair

David Staub

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161514131110767
Joined·+0+1+0+2+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·12141312
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $67k → $35k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Keystone Foundation’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 Keystone Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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

81%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 83% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of The Keystone Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
DE

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

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Glenkirk · exempt
  • Keystone Alliance · exempt
  • Search Inc · exempt
  • Glenkirk Enterprises Inc and Subsidiary · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Keystone 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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Questions and answers

Who funds The Keystone Foundation?
The Keystone Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,868 to it, the largest being THE WESSELINK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($220,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Keystone Foundation have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $270,868 in grants to The Keystone Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Keystone Foundation?
THE WESSELINK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Keystone 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 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing