Illinois · Nonprofit
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Visionary Ventures Nfp Corporation does
Mission
The general purpose for which the Visionary Ventures NFP Corporation is formed is to operate exclusively for such charitable and educational purposes as will qualify it as an exempt organization within the meaning of Section 501 c 3 of the code but not limited to fostering the creation and preservation of low income and mixed income housing, providing training and technical assistance in low income communities to help support job creation and economic growth in underserved areas, leveraging public and private investments for economic and community development, and making of distributions to exempt organizations qualified under that section or corresponding section fo any future federal tax code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Received a grant from Oweesta, who is the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products an development services exclusively to Native communities. These grant funds help continue Visionary Ventures work to complete the construction of Jigzibik "At the River's Edge" the first affordable housing designed for our Chicago Urban Native community.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants$10,000 earned by the program13% of program spendingWorking with the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative to work with other Native American organizations to help improve the lives of Native Americans living in the Chicagoland area. We are working on affordable housing, education and services for our community. Received a $5,000 grant.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants$5,000 earned by the program7% of program spendingVisionary Ventures receive a donation in the amount of $5,000 and it helped cover the cost of the work involved to help close on the financing of Jigzibik. The first affordable housing development for the Chicago Native American community in Chicago's history. There were also expense for the ground blessing ceremony after closing.
$5,000 spent$5,000 earned by the program7% of program spendingReceived donations and developer fees to pay the day to day expenses for the Visionary Ventures.
$56,286 spent$56,286 earned by the program74% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $76,286.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2k to $75k (+4041%).
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.
18% of VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Shelly Tucciarelli
Executive Director
Board chair
Pamala Silas
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $26k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION’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
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
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
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION?
- VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $69,000 in grants to VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION 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.
Play a game about who funds Visionary Ventures Nfp →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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