Illinois · Nonprofit
The Skylight Foundation
The Skylight Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,100 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $267k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $65k
What The Skylight Foundation does
Mission
At The Skylight Foundation, we believe that quality mental health care is a basic human right and not a privilege. Therefore, we would like to eliminate the barriers to affordable mental healthcare and aim to make therapy available for everyone. Our vision is a world in which access to mental healthcare is equitable and everyone in need is able to receive the support and care they desire.Our mission is to make therapy affordable for everyone. We bring dignity to the therapy process and aim to provide low cost and no cost sliding scale mental health services in a private practice setting. Our providers are well trained and fully resourced to help those in need. Our goal is to create healthier societal systems so that our world is more just, equitable and inclusive. Our Work Direct Client ServicesThe Skylight Foundations primary objective is to ensure that individual clients receive high quality counseling services, and promptly. When a client reaches out to the foundation for services,
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Skylight Vintage, Etc. is a pop-up shop that features a collection of vintage houseware, books, artwork, clothing, decorative items and more. All items are donated from the public and 100% of proceeds go to the Foundation mission of providing low to no cost mental health care to those in need.
$120,038 spent$211,332 earned by the program66% of program spendingProviding low-cost and no-cost quality mental health care services to those in need that cannot afford mental health care services through the normal market channels.
$62,573 spent34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $182,611.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $65k (+134%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Skylight Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $2k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Skylight 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 Skylight Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% 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 Skylight Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
58% of The Skylight Foundation'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. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Against its field
The Skylight Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Skylight Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Skylight 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 Skylight Foundation?
- The Skylight Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,100 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Skylight Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $60,100 in grants to The Skylight Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Skylight Foundation?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Skylight 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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