Illinois · Nonprofit
THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION
THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being Hamill Family Foundation ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $818k
What The Wayne Area Conservancy Foundation does
Programs
The organization will be responsible for the upkeep of specified natural courtsey trails and easements.
$36,867 spentThe orgtanization will conduct conservation activites under direction of the forest preserve on a gratis basis
$1,760 spentTo aquire and maintain real property for the purpose of preserving open space and/or other conservations purposses
$0 spentThe organization will contriburte cash or in kind to goverment public charities
$750 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $432k to $999k (+131%).
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 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $1k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY 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 WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.
“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 WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.
Against its field
THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION?
- THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being Hamill Family Foundation ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,500 in grants to THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION?
- Hamill Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WAYNE AREA CONSERVANCY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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