Illinois · Nonprofit
TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND
TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 ($700,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $136k
What Tri-Council Development Fund does
Mission
To advance the painting, decorating, drywall finishing and glazing industries through the development and implementation of strategic proactive programming designed to raise the bar where public resources and public interest converge while securing new work opportunities for union members and signatory employers.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
To advance the painting, decorating, drywall finishing and glazing industries through the development and implementation of strategic proactive programming designed to raise the bar where public resources and public interest converge while securing new work opportunities for union members and signatory employers.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $320k to $649k (+103%).
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.
100% of TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Todd Dotson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $330k → $345k.
From the IRS filings of TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND’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
TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
89% of TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 142 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $975k on record.
- Department of Labor$975k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Painters and Allied Trades District Council No 30 · exempt
- North Central Illinois Finishing Trades Institute · exempt
- International Brotherhood of Painters & Allied Trades District Council 14 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND: 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 TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 ($700,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,575,000 in grants to TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT FUND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), 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