Illinois · Nonprofit
THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION
THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,025 to it, the largest being J Edward Mahoney Foundation ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historylocalportfolio match
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared funders
- The Hanley Family Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
82% of THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 7 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 SECOND STORY 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 SECOND STORY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 SECOND STORY FOUNDATION.
“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
100% of THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historylocalportfolio matchIL · funds 110 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- The Hanley Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McMillen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residencesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob Barker Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mibor Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlene and Michael Rosen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Recovery St Louisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Madigan Family Foundationportfolio 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 SECOND STORY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 SECOND STORY 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.
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 SECOND STORY FOUNDATION?
- THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,025 to it, the largest being J Edward Mahoney Foundation ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $180,025 in grants to THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION?
- J Edward Mahoney Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SECOND STORY 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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