Illinois · Nonprofit
WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC
WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,891 to it, the largest being EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ($430,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $997k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,288 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- The Shaquille O'Neal Foundationportfolio match
- Heisman Trophy Trustportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $755k → $25k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC’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
WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 57% · 2020 76% · 2021 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
54% of WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC'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 $461k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- The Shaquille O'Neal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heisman Trophy Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mb Caddyshack Charity Golf Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chris Tucker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W C Payne Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Magnolia Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Wayne County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gt Render Family Foundation Co Bridges & Dunn-Rankin LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pat Green Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $978 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $978
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 WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
40%
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 WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC?
- WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,891 to it, the largest being EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ($430,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $996,891 in grants to WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC?
- EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing