Illinois · Nonprofit
University of Illinois Foundation
University of Illinois Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 668 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,150,558 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,170,751). 405 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $614M
- Funders on record
- 668
- Grants received
- $449M
- Net assets
- $3.6B
What University of Illinois Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with alumni, faculty, corporations, foundations, and development staff to create fundraising programs and opportunities that benefit the University of Illinois.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The University of Illinois Foundation makes distributions to the University of Illinois which uses these distributions in accordance with donor intent for many purposes, including student support, faculty support, and research.
$312,306,069 spentof which $312,306,069 as grants$272,458,211 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,306,069.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.6B to $3.2B (+26%).
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.
56% of University of Illinois Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
James H Moore Jr
President & CEO
Board chair
Richard C Osborne
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 181 funders to 249 funders, grant income fell $64M → $38M.
84 of 668 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money University of Illinois Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of University of Illinois Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 668 funders by total. 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
University of Illinois Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 University of Illinois Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 17% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 68% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of University of Illinois Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of University of Illinois 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. $193M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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
University of Illinois Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like University of Illinois 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- University of Illinois Foundation UK Limited · disregarded
- UIF Plymouth Court LLC · disregarded
- Margaret Bloom Trust 1045000013 · exempt
- Leiby S Hall Scholarship Trust · exempt
- Mary Ellen Defenbaugh Charitable Trust · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for University of Illinois 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 University of Illinois Foundation?
- University of Illinois Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 668 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,150,558 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,170,751). 405 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does University of Illinois Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 668 organizations giving $449,150,558 in grants to University of Illinois Foundation, 405 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of University of Illinois Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $92,170,751 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like University of Illinois 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 668 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing