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THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER
THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($41). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER 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.
- Illinois Action for Childrenlocal
- Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District Foundation Incportfolio match
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio 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.
51% of THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Illinois Action for ChildrenlocalIL · funds 237 organizations near you
- Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James J Buquet Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Acadianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillip K Dupre Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Bofill Duhe Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lahey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goldring Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward L Rispone Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cesatam Foundation 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 THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER
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
97%
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 LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER: 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 LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER?
- THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($41). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41 in grants to THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LADIES OF ESCOFFIER LTD DBA LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER CHICAGO CHAPTER 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 1funders 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